Volume 52 - Article 30 | Pages 971–1022
Household structure in Ghana: Exploring dynamics over three decades
By Josephine Akua Ackah Baafi, Rebecca Sear, Estelle McLean, Kofi Awusabo-Asare, Anushé Hassan, Fabian Sebastian Achana, Sarah Walters
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