Subjective well-being, poverty and ethnicity in South Africa: Insights from an exploratory analysis

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 313-341

  Neff, Daniel F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multiple correspondence analysis; Poverty; South Africa; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ETHNICITY; MODELING; POVERTY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33846435381     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-005-5920-x     Document Type: Article

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