Session 4:Life Course Data: Exploratory Data Analysis
Karl Ulrich Mayer
Life Course Research:Theoretical Issues, Empirical Applications and Methodological Problems
Sociological Methodology Workshop Series, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TaiwanSeptember 20-24, 2004
Outline
Descriptive Data Exploration
Education and Employment Status
Sample Cases: Women, 1964 Cohort
Sample Cases: LV West 64/71
Describing Life Courses: An Illustration Based on NLSY Data (Rohwer/Trappe 1997)
Descriptive Data Exploration
Transition, Duration, Life Domains
• life time ‘cakes’
• sequence analysis
• life time budgets
graphical
numerical
• life curves
• cumulative mobility tables
• survival graphs