Counting ethnicity in Malaysia: The complexity of measuring diversity

Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-32

  Nagaraj, Shyamala ^a   Lee, Kiong Hock ^b   Tey, Nai Peng ^a   Ng, Chiu Wan ^a   Pala, Jean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Census classification; Ethnicity; Malaysia; Measurement; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951591188     PISSN: 15114554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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