Household expenditures on children, 2007-08

Monthly Labor Review

Volumn 133, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3-16

  Omori, Megumi ^a  

^a BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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63. In order to obtain unbiased results, the SAS program PROC LOGISTIC generously provided at the 2009 CE Workshop at the Bureau of Labor Statistics was used. However, the author is fully responsible for the accuracy of the results.
64. In order to obtain unbiased results, the SAS program PROC REG generously provided at the 2009 CE Workshop at the Bureau of Labor Statistics was used. However, the author is fully responsible for the accuracy of the results.
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