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Introduction to Sequence Analysis

Date: 19 January 2017, Time: 9am – 5pm

Instructor: Morten Wahrendorf

Level: Introductory

Fee: £140 for those from educational, government and charitable institutions; others £195

Booking: http://www.cmist.manchester.ac.uk/study/short/booking/

 

Outline

Sequence analysis has recently experienced increasing interest in life course research and summarizes a variety of techniques to analyse whole "sequences", for example, employment or partnership histories. The interest, hereby, is not only to describe and visualize whole sequences, but also to compare and regroup similar sequences into clusters, which in turn can be used within other methods (e.g. as independent variable in regression analyses). The course provides a basic introduction into sequence analysis, including its theoretical implication within life course research, and the practical skills required to conduct sequences analysis with STATA.

 

Course objectives

The course has two objectives:

·         First, the course introduces the general theoretical idea of sequences analysis and illustrates which kind of questions can be investigated by its mean within life course research.

·         Second, the course provides a practical introduction into sequence analysis based on STATA, focussing on describing and visualizing sequences and on methods to regroup sequences into clusters.

 

Prerequisites

Participants should be interested in life course research and have experience in handling longitudinal data.

 

Recommended reading

Abbott A and Tsay A. (2000) Sequence analysis and optimal matching methods in sociology - Review and prospect. Sociological Methods & Research 29: 3-33.

Aisenbrey S and Fasang A.E. (2010) New Life for Old Ideas: The 'Second Wave' of Sequence Analysis Bringing the 'Course' Back Into the Life Course. Sociological Methods & Research 38, 4: 652-654.

Halpin B. (2014) SADI: Sequence Analysis Tools for Stata. Department of Sociology, Working paper WP 2014-03. University of Limerick, Limerick.

 

About the instructor

Morten Wahrendorf is a sociologist with expertise in research methodology. His research areas are work stress, health inequalities, life course epidemiology, comparative welfare research and ageing. He an attached member of the International Centre For Life-course Studies in Society and Health (ICLS), and is presently working at the Institute for Medical Sociology, University Düsseldorf, Germany.

 

Booking for this course is open at http://www.cmist.manchester.ac.uk/study/short/booking/

 

 

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