Demographic Applications of Event History Analysis

'this book is extremely useful for demographers who want to apply techniques of event history analysis to their data ... The case studies illustrate very clearly a number of important problems demographers are confronted with. In addition, the book throws lights on current research frontiers for some technical issues.'Nico Keilman, Norwegian Central Bureau of Statistics, European Journal of Population 9: 1993 This study illustrates the use of new techniques for the analysis of individual life histories that contain dates of relevant demographic events such as births, marriages, marital dissolutions, and migrations. The book focuses on major methodological approaches and their differences. Zusammenfassung This study illustrates the use of the new techniques at the frontier of the subject of event history analysis, concentrating on the timing of events in individual lives. The major methodological approaches and their differences are the subject of this volume.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: James Trussell, James (Professor of Economics and Public Trussell, James Etc. Tilton Trussell
• Mitarbeit: etc. (Herausgeber), Richard Hankinson (Herausgeber), Judith Tilton (Herausgeber), James Trussell (Herausgeber), James (Professor of Economics and Public Affairs; Associate Director Trussell (Herausgeber), Trussell James (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 04.06.1992
• EAN: 9780198283867
• ISBN: 978-0-19-828386-7
• Seiten: 286
• Serien: International Studies in Demography; International Studies in Demog; International Studies in Demography; International Studies in Demog
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Allgemeines, Lexika; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, Social research & statistics, Population & demography, Population and Demography, Social research and statistics