The New Zealand socio-economic index of occupational status: Methodological revision and imputation for missing data

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-119

  Davis, Peter ^a   Jenkin, Gabrielle ^a   Coope, Pat ^a   Blakely, Tony ^a   Sporle, Andrew ^b   Kiro, Cindy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; EMPLOYMENT; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; OCCUPATION; POPULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 1942499762     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2004.tb00922.x     Document Type: Article

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