Australian children at risk of social exclusion: A spatial index for gauging relative disadvantage

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 135-150

  Tanton, Robert ^a   Harding, Ann ^a   Daly, Anne ^a   McNamara, Justine ^a   Yap, Mandy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Children; Disadvantage; Principal components analysis; Regional analysis; Social exclusion

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; CHILD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; POVERTY DETERMINANT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 76749109528     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.531     Document Type: Article

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