Testing the invariance of values in the benelux countries with the european social survey: Accounting for ordinality

Cross-Cultural Analysis: Methods and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 149-171

  Davidov, Eldad ^a   Datler, Georg ^a   Schmidt, Peter ^b   Schwartz, Shalom H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 84875808920     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203882924     Document Type: Chapter

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