The influence of network mortality experience on nonnumeric response concerning expected family size: Evidence from a Nepalese mountain village

Demography

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 737-756

  Sandberg, John ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEPAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; UNCERTAINTY;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FERTILITY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEPAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY; WOMEN;

EID: 33646560639     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/dem.2005.0035     Document Type: Article

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