This section will offer descriptions as weil as discussions of data sources that may be of
interest to social scientists engaged in empirical research or teaching courses that include …

A very special debt of gratitude is owed to George C. Myers, former director of the Center for
Demographic Studies at Duke University, who passed away in 2000. Not only did Dr. Myers …

Duncker & Humblot - Berlin: The Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) and its Member
Country Household Panel Studies Due to maintenance, Duncker & Humblot eLibrary will …

Objective: The growing availability of electronic health records (EHR) data opens
opportunities for integrative analysis of multi-institutional EHR to produce generalizable …

Background As global populations age, cross-national comparisons of cognitive health and
dementia risk are increasingly valuable. It remains unclear, however, whether country-level …

In this article, we show that social science research on fertility and infertility consists of
largely separate research traditions, despite shared interest in pregnancies and births (or …

Abstract The Comparative Panel File (CPF) harmonizes the world's largest and longest-
running household panel surveys from seven countries: Australia (HILDA), Germany …

Life course study relies for its empirical basis on the longitudinal surveys that supply the
means of charting the development of individuals through their lives. Understanding the …

This article proposes a new approach to analyze protest participation measured in surveys
of uneven quality. Because single international survey projects cover only a fraction of the …

Across the social sciences, there is widespread agreement that quantitative longitudinal
research designs offer analysts powerful scientific data resources. But, to date, many texts …