Counting importance: The case of life satisfaction and relative domain importance

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 227-240

  Hsieh, Chang Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUALITY OF LIFE; RANKING; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; URBAN POPULATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037319995     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021354132664     Document Type: Article

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