Life satisfaction and happiness in Turkey

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 531-562

  Selim, Sibel ^a  

^a CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Happiness; Life satisfaction; Ordered logit model; Turkey

Indexed keywords

LOGIT ANALYSIS; MODELING; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 48449083288     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-007-9218-z     Document Type: Article

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