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Cohort analysis / Norval D. Glenn.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Sage university papers series. Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; ; 07-005.Publication details: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2005.Edition: 2nd edDescription: vii, 61 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0761922156 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 001.4/2 22
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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