From Child Welfare to Children Well-Being: The Child Indicators Perspective

Children's Well-Being: Indicators and Research

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 9-22

  Ben Arieh, Asher ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Administrative Data; Child Indicator; Child Poverty; Child Welfare; Social Indicator

Indexed keywords

EID: 85184678558     PISSN: 18795196     EISSN: 1879520X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3377-2_2     Document Type: Chapter

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