Beschreibung:
As one of the few teaching textbooks in the market about longitudinal research and data, this book provides a strong foundation in the fundamentals of longitudinal research, discussing core issues such as study design, sampling, attrition and missing data.
Chapter 1: What is longitudinal research?Chapter 2: Types of longitudinal study designsChapter 3: Understanding the sampleChapter 4: Attrition and missing dataChapter 5: Panel conditioningChapter 6: Respondent recall and reportingChapter 7: Question types, features and comparabilityChapter 8: Mode of data collection - verbal modesChapter 9: Mode of data collection - visual modesChapter 10: The implications of design choices for longitudinal studiesChapter 11: Analysing longitudinal dataChapter 12: Talking about longitudinal data