The case for parity and birth-order statistics

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 171-200

  Corr, Patrick ^a   Kippen, Rebecca ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Birth order; Birth registration; Census; Data collection; Fertility; Parity; Vital statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745326532     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: 1467842X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2006.00433.x     Document Type: Article

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