Social class assignment and mortality in Sweden.
The earlier practice of assigning all members of a family to the same social class as that of the household head, typically the father, has in recent years been replaced by either basing individual class position on one's own occupation or of one of the family members, not necessarily the father. Th...
| Published in: | Social Science & Medicine Vol. 62; no. 9; pp. 2151 - 2161 |
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Elsevier Science
May 2006
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