Volume 34 - Article 35 | Pages 995–1036
Social network indices in the Generations and Gender Survey: An appraisal
By Pearl A. Dykstra, Christoph Bühler, Tineke Fokkema, Gregor Petrič, Rok Platinovšek, Tina Kogovšek, Valentina Hlebec
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