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| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction |
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| PART I Longitudinal research |
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What is longitudinal research? |
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The development of longitudinal research: an historical overview |
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Longitudinal data: characteristics and analytic advantages |
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Repeated cross-sectional surveys |
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Event oriented design (event history data) |
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Qualitative' longitudinal sources |
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The issues of data collection and comparability within longitudinal research: some examples |
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Prospective studies - an example of good practices: the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) |
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Retrospective studies - how to develop a life-course study `quantitatively': the German Life History Study (GLHS) |
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The issue of comparability within longitudinal research |
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Some problems connected with longitudinal research |
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The limitations of repeated cross-sectional design |
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Problems connected With Panel design |
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Retrospective design and its drawbacks |
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Costs and liming of longitudinal research |
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100 | (5) |
| PART II Longitudinal analysis |
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An overview of the major techniques needed to perform longitudinal analysis |
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Time series analysis for repeated cross-sectional data |
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Structural equation models |
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Log-linear analysis and Markov models of categorical longitudinal data |
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| Conclusions |
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| Appendix 1: List of longitudinal studies mentioned in the book |
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| Appendix 2: Longitudinal datasets available in Europe, Russia and North America |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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