Secular trends in parental age in Croatia from 1985-2009

Anthropologischer Anzeiger

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 347-355

  Vraneš, Hrvojka Soljǎcić ^a   Gall, Vesna ^a,b  

^a SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

^b NONE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Education; Fathers' age; Maternal age; Parental age; Secular changes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891357070     PISSN: 00035548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0003-5548/2013/0329     Document Type: Article

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