Analyzing Repeated Surveys

Repeated surveys -- a technique for asking the same questions to different samples of people -- allows researchers the opportunity to analyze changes in society as a whole. This book begins with a discussion of the classic issue of how to separate cohort period and age effects. It then covers methods for modeling aggregate trends; two methods for estimating cohort replacements contribution to aggregate trends a decomposition model for clarifying how microchange contributes to aggregate change and simple models that are useful for the assessment of changing individual-level effects.