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Original Articles

Standard measures of inter-generational social mobility distort actual patterns of mobility and health behaviour: evidence for a better methodology

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Pages 223-232 | Received 07 Aug 2008, Accepted 10 May 2009, Published online: 24 Jun 2010

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