Developing and evaluating small-area indicators of the neighbourhood social environment

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2173-2192

  Twigg, Liz ^a   Barnard, Steve ^a   Mohan, John F ^a,b   Jones, Kelvyn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; PROBABILITY; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY;

EID: 33751532939     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a36213     Document Type: Article

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