Multilevel Synthesis From the Group to the Individual /

• Main Author: Daniel, Courgeau (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, 18
• Subjects: Social sciences.; History.; Epistemology.; Statistics.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; History of Science.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.

This book presents a historical panorama of the evolution of demographic thought from its eighteenth-century origins up to the present day, and uses it to demonstrate how the multilevel approach can resolve some of the contradictions that have become apparent and achieve a synthesis of the different...

Table of Contents:

• From Macro/Micro Opposition to Multilevel Analysis
• Period Analysis of Social Groups
• of Seniority in the Group
• Analyzing Individual Data
• Toward a Contextual and Multilevel Analysis
• Multilevel Analysis
• Defining Levels
• Linear Analysis of Continuous Characteristics
• Analysis of Discrete Characteristics
• Multilevel Event-History Analysis.