Volume 48 - Article 10 | Pages 271–320
Union formation and fertility amongst immigrants from Pakistan and their descendants in the United Kingdom: A multichannel sequence analysis
By Joseph Harrison, Katherine Lisa Keenan, Frank Sullivan, Hill Kulu
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