Are you unhappy? Then you are poor? Multi-dimensional poverty in Belgium

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

Volumn 28, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 502-515

  Dekkers, Gijs J m ^a  

^a Federal Planning Bureau   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belgium; Cluster analysis; Personal health; Poverty; Social psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950702022     PISSN: 0144333X     EISSN: 17586720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01443330810915215     Document Type: Article

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