Methodologies used in the construction of composite child well-being indices

Handbook of Child Well-Being: Theories, Methods and Policies in Global Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2739-2755

  Lamb, Vicki L ^a   Land, Kenneth C ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84975828136     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9063-8_163     Document Type: Chapter

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