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Session 8: Research Design, Measurement and Data Collection

Session 8: Research Design, Measurement and Data Collection. Karl Ulrich Mayer Life Course Research: Theoretical Issues, Empirical Applications and Methodological Problems Sociological Methodology Workshop Series, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan September 20-24, 2004. Outline.

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Session 8: Research Design, Measurement and Data Collection

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  1. Session 8:Research Design, Measurementand Data Collection Karl Ulrich MayerLife Course Research:Theoretical Issues, Empirical Applications and Methodological ProblemsSociological Methodology Workshop Series, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TaiwanSeptember 20-24, 2004

  2. Outline Survey Design, Data Collection and Measurement Comparison of Surveys The German Life History Study: Description and Data Example of an Event Oriented Observation Plan to Record Work Careers Family Networks Variables in the GLHS: History for the Time Axis for the cohorts born 1919-1921 Event Sequences Float Chart of Screening Procedures in the CATI System for Job Spells Life History Calendar Open and Neglected Issues in Modeling and Data Analysis

  3. Survey Design, Data Collection and Measurement Issues: system level and population (national, local, firm) (men and women) unit of analysis (individuals or families) prospective vs. retrospective measurement panel vs. continuous time/event design cohorts vs. cross-sections which cohorts? sampling refusals and hard to reach foreigners sampling of cohorts interview method (personal, telephone, written) data collection instruments (unstructured, semi-structured, life domain event histories, life time matrices) (pre-coded vs. field coding vs. open data entry) data collection instruments CATI-systems: stationary and non- stationary taping organizing the fieldwork many or few interviewers length of interviews interviewers errors interviewing firms and budgeting data entry data editing data organization and retrieval

  4. The German Life History Study:Life Course and Social Change

  5. The German Life History Study:Life Course and Social Change DFG Special Research Unit “Microanalytical Foundations of Social Policy,” Universities of Mannheim and Frankfurt Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

  6. The German Life History Study- Data -

  7. Example of an Event Oriented Observation Plan to Record Work Careers Source: Blossfeld, Hans-Peter, Alfred Hamerle and Karl Ulrich Mayer (1989): Event History Analysis. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 20-21.

  8. Life History Calendar Source: Freedman, Deborah, Arland Thornton, Donald Camburn, Duane Alwin, and Linda Young-DeMarco (1988): “The Life History Calendar: A Technique for Collecting Retrospective Data.” In: Clifford C. Clogg (ed.), Sociological Methodology, Vol. 18 (p. 43). Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.

  9. Open and Neglected Issues inModeling and Data Analysis

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