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Main Author: Glenn, Norval D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. Sage Publications c2005
Edition:2nd ed
Series:Quantitative applications in the social sciences no. 07-005
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-56) and index
Introduction: The Purposes of Cohort Analysis -- Definitions; Comparison of Cohort Analysis With Related Methods -- The Identification Problem --Strategies for estimating age, period and cohort effects: The Mason, Mason, Winsborough, and Poole Method -- The Nakamura Bayesian Method -- The Quest Continues -- Age-Period-Cohort-Characteristic (APCC) Models -- Informal Means of Assessing APC Effects -- An Illustration: A Cohort Analysis of Personal Happiness -- Use of cohort analysis fro understanding change -- Data requirements and availability: Data Requirements -- Data Availability -- The future
Covering the basis of the cohort approach to studying aging social & cultural change, this volume also critiques several commonly used, but flawed, methods of cohort analysis, & illustrates appropriate methods with analyses of personal happiness & attitudes toward premarital & extramarital sexual relations
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 61 p.)
ISBN:9781441630032
1441630031
9781412983662
1412983665

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