The design of a multilevel survey of children, families, and communities: The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey

Social Science Research

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1000-1024

  Sastry, Narayan ^a   Ghosh Dastidar, Bonnie ^a   Adams, John ^a   Pebley, Anne R ^b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Los Angeles; Multilevel analysis; Neighborhood effects; Simulation; Survey design

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750460956     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2005.08.002     Document Type: Article

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