Sampling minority ethnic older people in Britain

Ageing and Society

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 257-277

  Sin, Chih Hoong ^a  

^a Matrix MHA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bias; Britain; Geography; Minority ethnic older people; Reliability; Sampling

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY POPULATION; ETHNIC MINORITY; SAMPLING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1842787486     PISSN: 0144686X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X03001545     Document Type: Article

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