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Introduction To Longitudinal Research

The recent introduction of computerised dynamic surveys in Europe and North America has made longitudinal data widely available to students and social researchers. In her book, Elisabetta Ruspini provides a concise and comprehensive introduction to the kinds of issues involved in using longitudinal data for the first time. In particular, she covers:

• the advantages of using longitudinal data
• guidance on the availability of longitudinal datasets in Europe, the US and Canada
• the implications of integrating micro level empirical research with macro level theories of social change
• the choices that need to be made for example, between using trend, panel and duration data.

Introduction to Longitudinal Data will be essential reading for students and social researchers thinking of using longitudinal datasets at any level of complexity.

Elisabetta Ruspini is a lecturer and researcher based in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Milan-Bicocca.

Social Research Today

edited by Martin Bulmer

The Social Research Today series provides concise and contemporary introductions to significant methodological topics in the social sciences. Covering both quantitative and qualitative methods, this new series features readable and accessible books from some of the leading names in the field and is aimed at students and professional researchers alike. This series also brings together for the first time the best titles from the old Social Research Today and Contemporary Social Research series edited by Martin Bulmer for UCL Press and Routledge. Other series titles include:

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Martin Bulmer is Professor of Sociology and co-director of the Institute of Social Research at the University of Surrey. He is also Academic Director of the Question Bank in the ESRC Centre for Applied Social Surveys, London.

First published 2002
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.

2002 Elisabetta Ruspini

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Ruspini, Elisabetta.
Introduction to longitudinal research / Elisabetta Ruspini.
p. cm. (Social research today)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Social sciencesResearchMethodology. 2. Social sciences Longitudinal studies.
I. Title. II. Social research today (Routledge (Firm))

H62 .R84 2002
300.72dc21 2001048954

ISBN 0-203-16722-8 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-26205-0 (Adobe eReader Format)
ISBN 0-415-26007-8 (hbk)
ISBN 0-415-26008-6 (pbk)

Illustrations

Figures

The GSOEP data structure: cross-sectional data

The GSOEP data structure: longitudinal data

Tables

Longitudinal studies in Europe and North America

Life history calendar in the BHPS

Activity calendar in the GSOEP

Attriction rates in ECHP

Sampling planof the GSOEP

Principles for naming survey in GSOEP

Temporary and permanent attrition in Dutch SEP

Examples of event histories

NLS survey plano

Core topics in the PSID

Major PSID supplemental topics

BCS70 survey plan

GSOEP dataset: starting sample size in Wave 1

Special topical modules, GSOEP dataset

Effective HUS sample size

Number of cases in the OSA Labour Supply Panel

Wave-on-wave response rates in LII

Number of interviewed households and individual respondents by country in BHPS

The sample design of the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID)

Sample size and changes in the achieve sample size in ECHP

Available countries in the PACO Data Archive

Available countries and years in the PACO Database

Examples

Examples of repeated cross-sectional studies with a small panel sectional

Household Panel Studies

Examples of cohort studies

The Berkeley Guidance Study and the Oakland Growth Study

The PSID

The NLS and BCS70

Examples of repeated cross-sectional surveys

The Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, the Survey of Income and Program Participation, the Labour Force Survey and the Household Budget Countinuous Survey

Age, period and cohort effects

Examples of linked panels

Examples of retrospective questions

WES

The BHPS questionnaire package

The CATI technique

The ECHP survey

Variables in the PACO file

Generated variables in the GSOEP

Linking operations between HPS data files

Special Supplemental Files in PSID

Tracking and tracing techniques

The CentERpanel

Types of missing data

Memory errors

Factor analysis and variance

Path analysis and multiple regression analysis

Levels of measurement of variables

OLS and MLE

Logistic regression, logit analysis and probit analysis

Markov models

EHA models

The Kaplan-Meier method and the life-table method

The properties of sequences

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