Accounting for ethnic and racial diversity: The challenge of enumeration

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1357-1365

  Simon, Patrick ^a   Piché, Victor ^b  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL D'ÉTUDES DÉMOGRAPHIQUES   (France)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; RACIAL IDENTITY;

EID: 84863506640     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: 14664356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.634508     Document Type: Article

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