Socio-demographic and service provision characteristics associated with primary school attendance among the Most Vulnerable Children in Tanzania

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2255-2262

  Ng'ondi, Naftali Bernard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NONE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Most Vulnerable Children; PASADA; Primary school attendance; Residualized regression; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868307738     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2012.07.021     Document Type: Article

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