An evaluation of the childhood family structure measures from the sixth wave of the British Household Panel Survey

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

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 539-566

  Francesconi, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Childhood family structure; Intergenerational links; Interviewer effects; Recall error; Retrospective data

Indexed keywords

EID: 21244505075     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2005.00362.x     Document Type: Article

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