Birth seasonality in present-day Italy, 1993-2005

Human Ecology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 227-234

  Manfredini, Matteo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH INTERVAL; BIRTH RATE; SEASONALITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349127915     PISSN: 03007839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-009-9221-x     Document Type: Article

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