
Introduction to Longitudinal Research
by Ruspini, Elisabetta-
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Summary
Table of Contents
List of tables/figures | |
Glossary | |
Acknowledgments | |
Longitudinal Research | |
What is longitudinal research? | |
The need for a definition | |
The development of longitudinal research: an historical overview | |
Longitudinal data; characteristics and analytical advantages | |
Repeated cross-sectional data | |
Panel design | |
Event orientated observation design (Event History data) | |
'Qualitative' longitudinal sources | |
The issues of data collection and comparability within longitudinal research: some examples | |
Prospective studies | |
An example of good practices: the BHPS | |
Retrospective studies | |
How to develop, 'qualitatively', a life course study: the German Life History study (GLHS) | |
The issue of comparability within longitudinal research (European Community Household Panel, PACO project, PSID - GSOEP equivalent data file, EPAG data sets, CHER project) | |
Ex ante attempts | |
Ex post attempts | |
Some problems connected with longitudinal research | |
The limitations of repeated cross-sectional design | |
Problems connected with panel design | |
Timing and error reduction | |
Retrospective design and its drawbacks | |
Costs and timing of longitudinal research | |
Longitudinal Analysis | |
An overview of the major techniques needed to perform longitudinal analysis | |
Time series analysis for repeated cross-sectional data | |
Structural Equation Models | |
Log-linear and Markov Models of categorical longitudinal data | |
Multilevel analysis | |
Event history analysis | |
Sequence analysis | |
Conclusions | |
Bibliography | |
Appendix | |
Description and characteristics of longitudinal data sets in Europe, Russia and North-America in chronological order | |
Index | |
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