From source-oriented databases to event-history data files: a twelve-step action plan for the analysis of individual and household life histories

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Onno Boonstra ◽  
Maarten Panhuysen
Keyword(s):  
Life Histories ◽  
Event History Analysis ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Event History ◽  
Flat File ◽  
Event History Data ◽  
History Analysis ◽  
Good Technique ◽  
Data Files ◽  
The Way

Population registers are recognised to be a very important source for demographic research, because it enables us to study the lifecourse of individuals as well as households. A very good technique for lifecourse analysis is event history analysis. Unfortunately, there are marked differences in the way the data are available in population registers and the way event history analysis expects them to be. The source-oriented approach of computing historical data calls for a ‘five-file structure’, whereas event history analysis only can handle fiat files. In this article, we suggest a series of twelve steps with which population register data can be transposed from a five-file structured database into a ‘flat file’ event history analysis dataset.

scholarly journals Using Event-history Analysis: Lessons from Fifteen Years of Practice

2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Céline Le Bourdais ◽  
Jean Renaud
Keyword(s):  
Regression Models ◽  
Event History Analysis ◽  
Event History ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Longitudinal Surveys ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
New Immigrants ◽  
History Analysis ◽  
The Way

Innovative statistical methods and new longitudinal surveys paved the way to the widespread use of event-history analysis in social science during the last two decades. This paper does not attempt to provide a comprehensive review of these innovative methods. More modestly, it aims at identifying and describing the problems encountered by two privileged users. Two types of problems are discussed here. The first arises from the design of the surveys, or the way data are collected, and the difficulty to test specific hypotheses with the existing databases; this is the kind of problem that Le Bourdais has faced in analysing family dynamics. The second has to do with the limitations of the survival regression models when the longitudinal phenomena studied can no longer properly be thought of as a small number of unique events; this is the type of problem encountered by Renaud in his ten-year Quebec panel survey of new immigrants.

Specifying a Model of State Policy Innovation

1991 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 571-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Frant ◽  
Frances Stokes Berry ◽  
William D. Berry
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Event History Analysis ◽  
Policy Innovation ◽  
Original Model ◽  
Model Specification ◽  
Event History ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
History Analysis ◽  
The Way

How should policy innovations undertaken by states be modeled? Frances Stokes Berry and William D. Berry presented an event history analysis of the determinants of lottery adoptions by state governments in the June 1990 issue of this Review. Howard Front argues that the way Berry and Berry tested for interaction among variables is invalid on the grounds that what they take to be empirical results are only artifacts of the model specification. In response, the Berrys elaborate their original model and add alternative specifications.

The Diffusion of Morality Policies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor-David Cruz-Aceves
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Event History Analysis ◽  
State Level ◽  
Event History ◽  
Morality Policy ◽  
Process Information ◽  
Moral Content ◽  
History Analysis ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Way

Through event history analysis and seemingly unrelated estimations, this study investigates the way in which diffusion of state-level legislation in the USA changes according to the varying degrees of morality policy characteristics it displays. The author finds that the magnitude of diffusion increases when policies reflect fewer characteristics of morality policy. Moreover, policies with high moral content diffuse when preceded by a bounded-learning process, information about which is heavily drawn from polities with similar moral attributes; learning about legislation with moderate and minimal characteristics of morality policy not only occurs selectively, but information is also retrieved from ideologically dissimilar polities, too.

Event History Analysis in Demography

1995 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-357
Author(s):  
Johannes Huinink
Keyword(s):  
Event History Analysis ◽  
Event History ◽  
History Analysis

Gender Differences in the Link Between Marital Status and the Risk of Cognitive Impairment: Results From the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging

2021 ◽  
pp. 009141502110241
Author(s):  
Yujin Kim
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Event History Analysis ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
Event History ◽  
Never Married ◽  
History Analysis ◽  
Married Men ◽  
And Gender

In the context of South Korea, characterized by increasing population aging and a changing family structure, this study examined differences in the risk of cognitive impairment by marital status and investigated whether this association differs by gender. The data were derived from the 2006–2018 Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging. The sample comprised 7,568 respondents aged 45 years or older, who contributed 30,414 person-year observations. Event history analysis was used to predict the odds of cognitive impairment by marital status and gender. Relative to their married counterparts, never-married and divorced people were the most disadvantaged in terms of cognitive health. In addition, the association between marital status and cognitive impairment was much stronger for men than for women. Further, gender-stratified analyses showed that, compared with married men, never-married men had a higher risk of cognitive impairment, but there were no significant effects of marital status for women.

scholarly journals Using Event History Analysis in Historical Research: With Illustrations from a Study of the Passage of Women's Protective Legislation

1998 ◽  
Vol 43 (S6) ◽  
pp. 33-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly J. McCammon
Keyword(s):  
Event History Analysis ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Event History ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
History Analysis

Historians and social scientists often investigate the conditions that influence the occurrence of particular events. For instance, a researcher might be concerned with the causes of revolutionary action in some countries or the forces that unleash racial rioting in major cities. Or perhaps the researcher wishes to examine why industrial workers decide to strike or what prompts policy-makers to pass new legislation. In each of these examples, a qualitative shift occurs, from a circumstance without racial rioting in a particular city, for instance, to one with racial rioting. Event history analysis can aid researchers in uncovering the conditions that lead to such a shift.

Sex and Experience in the Academy Award Nomination Process

2004 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 589-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne E. Lincoln
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Event History Analysis ◽  
Event History ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
History Analysis ◽  
Academy Award ◽  
Award Nomination ◽  
Age Disparity

Research has indicated significant age differences between male and female Academy Award nominees and winners. However, this discrepancy may be associated with sex differences in actors' ages when they first begin their acting careers. The present research uses event history analysis to investigate the duration of Academy Award nominees' careers from career start (first film) to first three Academy Award nominations. Analysis suggested controlling for an actor's age at first film explains the sex-age disparity between Academy Award nominees and winners.

Political Imprisonment and Adult Functioning: A Life Event History Analysis of Palestinians

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clea McNeely ◽  
Brian K. Barber ◽  
Carolyn Spellings ◽  
Robert Belli ◽  
Rita Giacaman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Event History Analysis ◽  
Event History ◽  
Life Event ◽  
History Analysis ◽  
Adult Functioning ◽  
Political Imprisonment
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