Research Catalog

Title

Researching social and economic change : the uses of household panel studies / edited by David Rose.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rose, David, 1947 February 17-

Description

xxiii, 307 pages; 23 cm

Summary

This is a guide to the purposes and potential of one of the most significant national and increasingly international resources for analyzing social change. It explains to social researchers the possibilities and pitfalls in the analysis of panel.

Series Statement

Social research today

Uniform Title

Social research today (Routledge (Firm))

Subject

• Panel analysis
• Household surveys
• Panelonderzoek
• Huishoudingen
• Sociaal-economische ontwikkeling

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-297) and index.

Contents

Part I Introducing household panels 1 -- 1 Household panel studies: an overview / David Rose 3 -- Society and social change 4 -- Social science and social change 5 -- Social surveys and social change 7 -- Design of household panels 13 -- Panel data quality 15 -- Analytical advantages of household panel surveys 20 -- Household panel surveys and social policy 27 -- Plan and purpose of the book 29 -- 2 Panel surveys: adding the fourth dimension / Graham Kalton, Constance F. Citro 36 -- Panel surveys 40 -- 3 Using panel studies to understand household behaviour and well-being / Greg Duncan 54 -- Structure of household panel surveys 55 -- Analytical advantages of panel surveys 56 -- Possible disadvantages of panel surveys 65 -- Avoiding the disadvantages: elements of high-quality panel data 70 -- Part II Panel data quality 77 -- 4 Panel attrition / Jeroen W. Winkels, Suzanne Davies Withers 79 -- Attrition--the panel researcher's nightmare? 80 -- Attrition--does it make a difference? 81 -- Attrition--is it associated with behaviour? 87 -- 5 Weighting in household panel surveys / Graham Kalton, Michael Brick 96 -- Wave non-response 98 -- Weighting methods 103 -- Cross-sectional estimation 109 -- 6 Dealing with measurement error in panel analysis / Chris Skinner 113 -- Analysis of transitions between states 114 -- Event history analysis 120 -- 7 Tangled webs of family relationships: untangling them with survey data / Martha S. Hill, Marita A. Servais, Peter Solenberger 126 -- Nature of the problem and its treatment 127 -- Building blocks for relationships 135 -- Building the algorithm 137 -- Constructing a manageable set of codes 140 -- An illustrative example of using the file 143 -- 8 Dissemination issues for panel studies: metadata and documentation / Marcia Freed Taylor 146 -- Why disseminate data? 146 -- Case for good documentation of research data 147 -- Documentation and metadata 148 -- Documentation of household panels 152 -- Part III Panel data analyses 163 -- 9 Dynamics of poverty and determinants of poverty transitions: results from the Dutch socioeconomic panel / Ruud J.A. Muffels 165 -- Definition and calculation of three poverty lines 166 -- Trend analysis 1985-8 169 -- Analysis of income and poverty mobility 169 -- Duration of poverty 175 -- Determinants of spell beginnings and spell endings 181 -- 10 Low-income dynamics in 1990s Britain / Sarah Jarvis, Stephen P. Jenkins 188 -- Data and definitions 189 -- Low-income dynamics 191 -- Low-income exit and re-entry rates 194 -- Who are the persistently poor? 199 -- Who moves out of low income? Who moves in? 202 -- Characteristics of low-income escapers and entrants 204 -- 11 A new approach to poverty dynamics / Karl Ashworth, Martha S. Hill, Robert Walker 210 -- Rationale 211 -- Analysis 214 -- Results 217 -- 12 Using panel data to analyse household and family dynamics / John Ermisch 230 -- Methods 231 -- First partnerships 232 -- Leaving the parental home and returning to it 236 -- Econometric models of home leaving and return 239 -- Duration of partnerships 243 -- 13 Using panel surveys to study migration and residential mobility / Nicholas Buck 250 -- British Household Panel Study (BHPS) 254 -- Migration distances and motivations 257 -- Household composition change 259 -- Moving preferences 261 -- Correlates of migration in the BHPS 265.

ISBN

• 1857285468
• 9781857285468
• 1857285476
• 9781857285475

LCCN

00042493

OCLC

• ocm44414084
• 44414084
• SCSB-14204420

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library