Measuring Social Disparities via the CWI: Race-Ethnicity, Income, and Immigrant Status

Children's Well-Being: Indicators and Research

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages 77-120

  Hernandez, Donald J ^a   Macartney, Suzanne ^b   Cervantes, Wendy ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b U S CENSUS BUREAU   (United States)

^c First Focus   (United States)

Author keywords

Health Insurance Coverage; Hispanic Child; Immigrant Family; Income Group; Residential Mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016933223     PISSN: 18795196     EISSN: 1879520X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4092-1_4     Document Type: Chapter

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