Perceptions of poverty attributions in Europe: A multilevel mixture model approach

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1409-1419

  da Costa, Leonor Pereira ^a   Dias, José G ^a  

^a INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Latent class analysis; Multilevel mixture models; Poverty; Social attributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897416110     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-013-9843-3     Document Type: Article

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