Inclou: referències bibliogràfiques i índex.

Some issues in the quantitative characterization of heterogeneous populations / Kenneth G. Manton, Burton Singer, Max A. Woodbury -- Union dissolution in Sweden / James Trussell, Germán Rodríguez, Barbara Vaughan -- The disruption of marital and non-marital unions in contemporary Sweden / Britta Hoem, Jan M. Hoem -- Household formation and home-ownership in France / Mark Montgomery -- Interrelations between first home-ownership, constitution of the family, and professional occupation in France / Daniel Courgeau, Éva Lelièvre -- The progression to the third birth in Sweden / Michael Murphy -- Understanding third births in Sweden / James J. Heckman, James R. Walker -- Incomplete data in event history analysis / Roderick J.A. Little -- Analysis of current-status data / Ian D. Diamond, John W. McDonald -- A discrete-time method for the analysis of event histories / Elja Arjas, Pekka Kangas.

This study illustrates the use of the new techniques at the frontier of the subject of event history analysis, concentrating on the timing of events in individual lives. The major methodological approaches and their differences are the subject of this volume.

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