Improving census-based socioeconomic GIS for public policy: Recent immigrants, spatially concentrated poverty and housing need in Vancouver

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Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 145-169

  Fiedler, Rob ^a   Schuurman, Nadine ^a   Hyndman, Jennifer ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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