%0 Journal Article
%T Sequence Analysis in Demographic Research
%A Billari
%A Francesco C.
%J Canadian Studies in Population
%D 2001
%I Canadian Population Society
%X English This paper examines the salient features of sequence analysis in demogrpahicresearch. The new approach allows a holistic perspective on life course analysis and is based on arepresentation of lives as sequences of states. Some of the methods for analyzing such data aresketched, from complex description to optimal matching ot monoethetic divisive algorithms. Afer ashort ilustration of a demographically-relevant example, the needs in terms of data collection and theopportunities of applying the same aproach to synthetic data are discussed. French On examine ici les principaux ¨¦l¨¦ments de l¡¯analyse par s¨¦quence end¨¦mographie. Cette nouvelle technique permet une perspective unifi¨¦e del¡¯analyse du cours de la vie, en repr¨¦sentant la vie comme une s¨¦rie d¡¯¨¦tats.Certaines des m¨¦thodes pour de telles analyses sont d¨¦crites, en commen ant parla description complexe, pour consid¨¦rer ensuite les alignements optimales, etles algorithmes de division. Apr¨¨s un court exemple en d¨¦mographie, onconsid¨¨re les besoins en donn¨¦es et les possibilit¨¦s d¡¯application aux donn¨¦essynth¨¦tique.
%K sequence analysis
%K life course
%K lingitudinal data
%K synthetic biographies
%K monothetic divisive algorithm
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