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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... later years . The Terman archive offers a unique opportunity to do this , since it contains work histories over entire adult lives . Our initial reading of the case files offered a stark contrast to con- ventional notions that later ...
... later years . The Terman archive offers a unique opportunity to do this , since it contains work histories over entire adult lives . Our initial reading of the case files offered a stark contrast to con- ventional notions that later ...
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... later - life work . Thus the later years of work are assumed to be relatively stable and orderly , with the major change being an exit out of the labor force . Our reading of the case files suggests that these assumptions of stability ...
... later - life work . Thus the later years of work are assumed to be relatively stable and orderly , with the major change being an exit out of the labor force . Our reading of the case files suggests that these assumptions of stability ...
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... later life with employment characteristics such as self - employment and occupation . Before turning to these comparisons , however , we first describe some basic aspects of work in later life that are newly accessible after our coding ...
... later life with employment characteristics such as self - employment and occupation . Before turning to these comparisons , however , we first describe some basic aspects of work in later life that are newly accessible after our coding ...
Contents
Recasting the Archive | 23 |
The Decision to Recode | 30 |
Summary | 49 |
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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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