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Working with Archival Data: Studying Lives

Working with Archival Data: Studying Lives

Paperback

Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, Book 88

General Sociology

ISBN10: 0803942621
ISBN13: 9780803942622
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: Oct 7 1992
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.24 Width: 5.34 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
The number of longitudinal data archives is growing almost daily, yet no resource exists to help understand the relationship between research questions and archival data--until now. Drawing on a single project, the Lewis Terman Study at Stanford University, the authors illustrate how to use the model-fitting process to select and fit the right data set to a particular research problem. Employing a step-by-step approach, this handy volume covers the measurement of historical influences, the adaptation of existing coding schemes to temporal patterns that are characteristic of life records, and the recasting of archival materials to illuminate contemporary questions that the data were not designed to answer.

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