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- Title
A MIXED MODELS APPROACH TO THE AGE-PERIOD-COHORT ANALYSIS OF REPEATED CROSS-SECTION SURVEYS, WITH AN APPLICATION TO DATA ON TRENDS IN VERBAL TEST SCORES.
- Authors
Yang, Yang; Land, Kenneth C.
- Abstract
We develop a mixed (fixed and random effects) models approach to the age-period-cohort (APC) analysis of micro data sets in the form of a series of the repeated cross-section sample surveys that are increasingly available to sociologists. This approach recognizes the multilevel structure of the individual-level responses. As a substantive illustration, we apply our proposed methodology to data on verbal test scores from 15 cross-sections of the General Social Survey, 1974–2000. These data have been the subject of recent debates in the sociological literature. We show how our approach can be used to shed new light on these debates by identifying and estimating age, period, and cohort components of change. INSETS: Table 1: Descriptive Statistics for GSS Vocabulary Test;Table 2: Two-way Cross-Classified Data Structure in GSS;Table 3: Fixed-Effects Regression Models for Pooled GSS Wordsum;Table 4: HAPC Models of the GSS Wordsum Data
- Subjects
COHORT analysis; SOCIAL change; VERBAL ability; LINEAR statistical models; DEMOGRAPHY -- Social aspects; SOCIAL surveys; SOCIAL development; SOCIOLOGY methodology; SOCIAL science research
- Publication
Sociological Methodology, 2006, Vol 36, Issue 1, p75
- ISSN
0081-1750
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9531.2006.00175.x