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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... variable definitions , corre- sponding codes , and examples for each code . Our measure of physical health for each survey year appears in Table 3.3 . At the top of the page we list the variable name and concept definition . This ...
... variable definitions , corre- sponding codes , and examples for each code . Our measure of physical health for each survey year appears in Table 3.3 . At the top of the page we list the variable name and concept definition . This ...
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... variable definitions and decision rules and provides an opportunity for the investigator to view codes in their final form . For example , not until we precoded the health variables and reviewed the summary sheets did we incorporate the ...
... variable definitions and decision rules and provides an opportunity for the investigator to view codes in their final form . For example , not until we precoded the health variables and reviewed the summary sheets did we incorporate the ...
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... variable CONFTRAN indicates that we are relatively certain this re- spondent had six transitions , plus or minus one . The final section of the coding form includes several summary measures , including our measure for overall pattern of ...
... variable CONFTRAN indicates that we are relatively certain this re- spondent had six transitions , plus or minus one . The final section of the coding form includes several summary measures , including our measure for overall pattern of ...
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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