Geography matters: Patterns of spatial homogamy in the Netherlands

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 387-405

  Haandrikman, Karen ^a   Harmsen, Carel ^b   van Wissen, Leo J G ^a   Hutter, Inge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Explorative spatial data analysis; Partner choice; Spatial homogamy; Spatial homogamy coefficient; Spatial patterns; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

AGE AT MARRIAGE; ASSORTATIVE MATING; CENSUS; COHABITATION; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; MATE CHOICE; SINGLE PARENT; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL VARIATION;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 57849090030     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.487     Document Type: Article

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