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Session 4: Life Course Data: Exploratory Data Analysis. Karl Ulrich Mayer Life Course Research: Theoretical Issues, Empirical Applications and Methodological Problems Sociological Methodology Workshop Series, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan September 20-24, 2004. Outline.
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Session 4:Life Course Data: Exploratory Data Analysis Karl Ulrich MayerLife Course Research:Theoretical Issues, Empirical Applications and Methodological ProblemsSociological Methodology Workshop Series, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TaiwanSeptember 20-24, 2004
Outline Descriptive Data Exploration Education and Employment Status Sample Cases: Women, 1964 Cohort Sample Cases: LV West 64/71 Describing Life Courses: An Illustration Based on NLSY Data (Rohwer/Trappe 1997)
Descriptive Data Exploration • Transition, Duration, Life Domains • life time ‘cakes’ • sequence analysis • life time budgets • graphical • numerical • life curves • cumulative mobility tables • survival graphs