How many of us are there and where are we? A simple independent validation of the 2001 Census and its revisions

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1024-1044

  Dorling, Danny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34249799308     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a38140     Document Type: Article

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