Marriage or cohabitation: A competing risks analysis of first-partnership formation among the 1958 British birth cohort

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 127-151

  Berrington, Ann ^a   Diamond, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Birth cohort; Cohabitation; Competing risk; Life course; Marriage

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034354967     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00162     Document Type: Article

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