Meeting national information needs on homelessness: Partnerships in developing, collecting and reporting homelessness services statistics
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The 1998 National Symposium on Homelessness Research
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عنوان ژورنال: Statistical Journal of the IAOS
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1874-7655,1875-9254
DOI: 10.3233/sji-150885