Disability in the UK: Measuring equality

Disability and Society

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 53-65

  Purdam, Kingsley ^a   Afkhami, Reza ^a   Olsen, Wendy ^a   Thornton, Patricia ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c Voluntary Service Overseas   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

Disability; Equality; Survey data

Indexed keywords

EID: 36949013208     PISSN: 09687599     EISSN: 13600508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687590701725658     Document Type: Article

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