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- catalog abstract ""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."--Pub. desc.".
- catalog contributor b3931246.
- catalog contributor b3931247.
- catalog contributor b3931248.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description ""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."--Pub. desc.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. Working with archival data -- The life-course revolution -- Asking new questions of old data -- The Terman study -- From old data to new questions: children of the Great Depression -- From life records to codes: The Berkeley guidance archive -- Fitting research questions and data -- 3. Recasting the archive -- First approach -- Step 1: Evaluation of existing materials -- Step 2: The decision to recode -- Step 3: Refining the research questions -- Creating new codes -- Step 4: Evaluating available coding schemes -- Step 5: Writing the codebook -- Step 6: Coding the case -- Step 7: Assessing reliability and validity -- 4. From retirement to late-life careers -- First approach -- Step 1: Evaluation of existing materials -- Step 2: The decision to recode -- Step 3: Refining the research questions -- Creating new codes -- Step 4: Evaluating available coding schemes -- Step 5: Writing the codebook -- Step 6: Coding the case -- Step 7: Assessing reliability and validity -- 5. Measuring historical influences -- Linking historical influences and individual lives -- New codes for research questions -- Coding wartime experience -- Coding home-front mobilization.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-87) and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 88 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Working with archival data.".
- catalog identifier "0803942621 (pb)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Working with archival data.".
- catalog isPartOf "Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; no. 07-088.".
- catalog isPartOf "Sage university papers series. Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; no. 07-088".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Newbury Park [Calif.] : Sage,".
- catalog relation "Working with archival data.".
- catalog subject "400/.72 20".
- catalog subject "H62 .E465 1993".
- catalog subject "Longitudinal method.".
- catalog subject "Social sciences Information services.".
- catalog subject "Social sciences Research".
- catalog subject "Social sciences Research.".
- catalog subject "United States".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. Working with archival data -- The life-course revolution -- Asking new questions of old data -- The Terman study -- From old data to new questions: children of the Great Depression -- From life records to codes: The Berkeley guidance archive -- Fitting research questions and data -- 3. Recasting the archive -- First approach -- Step 1: Evaluation of existing materials -- Step 2: The decision to recode -- Step 3: Refining the research questions -- Creating new codes -- Step 4: Evaluating available coding schemes -- Step 5: Writing the codebook -- Step 6: Coding the case -- Step 7: Assessing reliability and validity -- 4. From retirement to late-life careers -- First approach -- Step 1: Evaluation of existing materials -- Step 2: The decision to recode -- Step 3: Refining the research questions -- Creating new codes -- Step 4: Evaluating available coding schemes -- Step 5: Writing the codebook -- Step 6: Coding the case -- Step 7: Assessing reliability and validity -- 5. Measuring historical influences -- Linking historical influences and individual lives -- New codes for research questions -- Coding wartime experience -- Coding home-front mobilization.".
- catalog title "Working with archival data : studying lives / Glen H. Elder, Jr., Eliza K. Pavalko, Elizabeth C. Clipp.".
- catalog type "text".