Determinants of Poverty Status in Taiwan: A Multilevel Approach

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 371-389

  Chen, Ke Mei ^a   Wang, Te Mu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Determinants of poverty; Hierarchical generalized linear model (HGLM); Multilevel logistic regression; Poverty

Indexed keywords

INCOME DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POVERTY DETERMINANT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

TAIWAN;

EID: 85027938219     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: 15730921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-014-0741-4     Document Type: Article

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