Working With Archival Data: Studying Lives, Issue 88The number of longitudinal data archives is growing almost daily, yet no resource exists to help understand the relationship between research questions and archival data--until now. Drawing on a single project, the Lewis Terman Study at Stanford University, the authors illustrate how to use the model-fitting process to select and fit the right data set to a particular research problem. Employing a step-by-step approach, this handy volume covers the measurement of historical influences, the adaptation of existing coding schemes to temporal patterns that are characteristic of life records, and the recasting of archival materials to illuminate contemporary questions that the data were not designed to answer.Learn more about "The Little Green Book" - QASS Series! Click Here |
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... data in archives or files has changed dramatically over the past century . Though at present archival files of life - record data typically await probing questions on the life course , in the 1920s such questions far exceeded the ...
... data in archives or files has changed dramatically over the past century . Though at present archival files of life - record data typically await probing questions on the life course , in the 1920s such questions far exceeded the ...
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... archival data , with emphasis on the fitting of questions and data . We begin this chapter by surveying some of these developments in data , theory , and method , as well as their relations to each other and to particular research ...
... archival data , with emphasis on the fitting of questions and data . We begin this chapter by surveying some of these developments in data , theory , and method , as well as their relations to each other and to particular research ...
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... data archives for current investi- gators and for those who will need life - history data in the future . Investigators seek to maximize the fit between their research ques- tions and the best available data at hand , but there is ...
... data archives for current investi- gators and for those who will need life - history data in the future . Investigators seek to maximize the fit between their research ques- tions and the best available data at hand , but there is ...
Contents
Recasting the Archive | 23 |
The Decision to Recode | 30 |
Summary | 49 |
Copyright | |
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Working With Archival Data: Studying Lives Glen H. Elder,Eliza K. Pavalko,Elizabeth Colerick Clipp Limited preview - 1992 |
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