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Title: Seminal Approaches to the Study of Childrens Trajectories of Individual Outcomes (Physical, Social, Emotional and Cognitive): Potential Lessons for Canadas National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth
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Publication Year: 2003
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Abstract: The authors aim this report at those researchers and policymakers who are considering using the longitudinal features of Canadas National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) and who might benefit from a critical overview of the method and substance of longitudinal research in the field of child and adolescent development. They focus upon large-scale longitudinal surveys of children and youth and therefore devote comparatively little attention to household panel studies. Reviewing British and US longitudinal studies they find that compared to many US datasets, where samples are drawn from respondents that are school-aged or older, the classic British datasets follow a given birth cohort from birth well into their adulthood. Some U.S. studies have followed up children from birth, but these are typically the children of mothers from some earlier survey.The authors document how the methodology relevant to longitudinal and panel studies has developed over the last quarter of the twentieth century and they review three major areas of longitudinal data analysis in which seminal methodological advances have been made: Econometric Approaches; Event History Analysis; and Multilevel Models with Repeated Measures (growth curve models). They show how each of these approaches addresses different substantive research problems that can be defined for longitudinal and developmental data on children and youth.The authors conclude that Canadas NLSCY is very well placed, as an accelerated cohort design, to build upon the research findings and methodological advances associated with seminal longitudinal studies carried out in Britain, the US and elsewhere. They provide specific suggestions for strengthening research to be carried out using this major resource.
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Authors: Sorenson, Ann-Marie; Tepperman, Lorne; Jones, Charles; Haan, Michael
Publisher: Human Resources Development Canada
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
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