The quality of social security benefit data in the British family resources survey: Implications for investigating income support take-up by pensioners

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

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-82

  Hancock, Ruth ^a   Barker, Geraldine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benefit take up; Data quality; Means testing; Pensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 12844266207     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2004.00336.x     Document Type: Review

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