School completion: What we learn from different measures of family background

Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth - Research Reports

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Homel, Jacqueline ^a   Mavisakalyan, Astghik ^a   Nguyen, Ha Trong ^a   Ryan, Chris ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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