Summary
Contents
Repeated surveys — a technique for asking the same questions to different samples of people — allows researchers the opportunity to analyze changes in society as a whole. This book begins with a discussion of the classic issue of how to separate cohort, period, and age effects. It then covers methods for modeling aggregate trends; two methods for estimating cohort replacement's contribution to aggregate trends, a decomposition model for clarifying how microchange contributes to aggregate change, and simple models that are useful for the assessment of changing individual-level effects.
Distinguishing Age, Period, and Cohort Effects
Distinguishing Age, Period, and Cohort Effects
By attempting to distinguish the effects of birth cohort, of aging, and of historical period, cohort analysis provides a template for thinking about social change. I rely on that template in this book, especially in the discussion of aggregate change (Chapters 3 and 4). Because those chapters borrow heavily from ...
