Analyzing demographic life courses through sequence analysis

Mathematical Population Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 81-106

  Billari, Francesco C ^a   Piccarreta, Raffaella ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Event history analysis; Life course; Monothetic divisive algorithms; Multi state demography; Optimal matching; Sequence analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; LIFE CYCLE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 27844470647     PISSN: 08898480     EISSN: 1547724X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08898480590932287     Document Type: Article

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