A “Global Interdependence” Approach to Multidimensional Sequence Analysis

Robette, Nicolas; Bry, Xavier; Lelièvre, Éva

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“…Specifically, we examine (i) the correlations of family trajectories between teenage mothers and fathers, and their progenitors and (ii) the antecedents of any observed intergenerational correlations. Our study extends the emerging trajectory-based research on intergenerational linkages in family development on general populations (Liefbroer and Elzinga 2012;Raab et al 2014;Robette et al, 2015) by focusing on non-normative family patterns and a vulnerable subpopulation. The study, thus, offers an opportunity to expand knowledge on potential mechanisms behind persistent disadvantage related to family dynamics.…”

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Intergenerational persistence of family formation trajectories among teenage-mothers and -fathers in Sweden

2021

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In this paper, we address the questions of whether early family trajectories of parents are reflected in childbearing teenagers, and how socio-economic and family background factors impact these intergenerational correlations. We use within-dyad sequence analysis to examine combined marital and childbearing trajectories, up to age 30, of two generations of a representative sample of childbearing teenagers born between 1975 and 1985 and their progenitors, drawn from the Swedish population register data. We find evidence for within-family persistence of early family trajectories, with better matches across family state sequences for dyads composed of childbearing teenagers and their parents, than for dyads composed of childbearing teenagers and parents of random birth cohort peers. Regression analysis shows that these intergenerational associations are stronger and occur among later-born siblings from non-traditional family backgrounds, and among families with lower socio-economic backgrounds. This study fills gaps in the knowledge of intergenerational family life course dynamics beyond the early parenthood event.

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Intergenerational persistence of family formation trajectories among teenage-mothers and -fathers in Sweden

2021

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“…In der Tradition algorithmischer Verfahren (data mining) verankert, ist sie besonders geeignet, um Regelmäßigkeiten in langen Verläufen zu beschreiben und in Kombination mit regressionsbasierten Verfahren erklärend zu untersuchen ( (Card et al 2008;Steele et al 2004). In der Sequenzanalyse finden sich ebenfalls erste dyadische Ansätze Liefbroer/Elzinga 2012;Raab et al 2014;Robette et al 2015). Zudem bieten Methoden zur Analyse von Netzwerkstrukturen über Dyaden hinaus großes und bisher zu wenig genutztes Potential in der Familienforschung (Carrington et al 2005;Widmer 2010 (Goffman 1975;Hess/Handel 1959 (Lück 2014).…”

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Aktuelle Entwicklungen in der deutschen Familiensoziologie: Theorien, Daten, Methoden

Fasang¹,

Huinink²,

Pollmann‐Schult³

2016

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How and in which areas did our knowledge of family structures, family dynamics and the determinants of family change improve in the past decade? Which substantive areas receive most attention and which questions are underresearched? Which methods are commonly applied in empirical family research and what can we say about data availability? This article reviews the current discussion and recent research on these questions in German family sociology in the context of the international literature. Next to a review of the substantive research foci in the past decade and an overview of available data and methods, we focus on identifying current substantive research gaps and methodological deficits. We formulate three requests for current family research in the social sciences: a timely family sociology that is relevant for social policy has to 1) pay more attention to subjective, cultural and social influences on family change beyond its structural determinants; 2) generate more knowledge on the contributions and capabilities of families in our contemporary society; and 3) intervene more forcefully into adjacent research areas including education, stratification and migration. Zusammenfassung Wie und in welchen Bereichen hat sich in den letzten 10 Jahren unser Wissen von familialen Strukturen und Dynamiken sowie den Ursachen ihres Wandels verbessert? Wo liegen die inhaltlichen Schwerpunkte der Forschung und welche Fragestellungen werden vernachlässigt? Welche Methoden werden in der empirischen Familienforschung verwendet, und welche Daten stehen zur Verfügung? Der Beitrag resümiert den Diskussions- und Forschungsstand zu diesen Fragen in der deutschen Familiensoziologie unter Bezugnahme auf die internationale Literatur. Neben einer Bestandsaufnahme der Forschungsschwerpunkte in den letzten 10 Jahren und einem Überblick über verfügbare Daten und Methoden fokussieren die Autoren auf die Identifikation von aktuellen inhaltlichen Forschungslücken und methodischen Defiziten. Es werden in drei Thesen Forderungen an die aktuelle sozialwissenschaftliche Familienforschung formuliert: Eine zeitgemäße, sozialpolitisch relevante familiensoziologische Forschung muss 1) neben strukturellen Faktoren stärker subjektive, kulturelle und soziale Einflussfaktoren familialen Wandels berücksichtigen; 2) mehr belastbares Wissen über die Leistungen und die Leistungsfähigkeit der Familie in unserer Gegenwartsgesellschaft gewinnen; und 3) sich stärker in angrenzende Forschungsbereiche einmischen, u.a. Bildung, Ungleichheit und Migration.

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“…Alternative ways to derive MD distances from domain distances, such as Robette et al (2015) GIMSA method, are based on principal coordinates of the sequences derived from the dissimilarity matrix in each domain. Unlike additive tricks, such methods do not require any independence assumption, but they are hard to calibrate Note: Indel = insertion or deletion; INDELSLOG = frequency-based method for estimating indel and substitution costs.…”

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“…We call this method the "distance additive trick" (DAT). One can also use more elaborate methods based on numerical representations of sequences to derive MD distances from domain distances (e.g., Robette, Bry, and Lelie `vre 2015). The fourth strategy-cross-classifying the typologies of the different domains-is not very popular because it produces rapidly too many and often sparse MD types when the number of types per domain increases (Raab and Struffolino 2022:chap.…”

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Strategies for Multidomain Sequence Analysis in Social Research

Ritschard

Liao

Struffolino

2023

Sociological Methodology

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Multidomain/multichannel sequence analysis has become widely used in social science research to uncover the underlying relationships between two or more observed trajectories in parallel. For example, life-course researchers use multidomain sequence analysis to study the parallel unfolding of multiple life-course domains. In this article, the authors conduct a critical review of the approaches most used in multidomain sequence analysis. The parallel unfolding of trajectories in multiple domains is typically analyzed by building a joint multidomain typology and by examining how domain-specific sequence patterns combine with one another within the multidomain groups. The authors identify four strategies to construct the joint multidomain typology: proceeding independently of domain costs and distances between domain sequences, deriving multidomain costs from domain costs, deriving distances between multidomain sequences from within-domain distances, and combining typologies constructed for each domain. The second and third strategies are prevalent in the literature and typically proceed additively. The authors show that these additive procedures assume between-domain independence, and they make explicit the constraints these procedures impose on between-multidomain costs and distances. Regarding the fourth strategy, the authors propose a merging algorithm to avoid scarce combined types. As regards the first strategy, the authors demonstrate, with a real example based on data from the Swiss Household Panel, that using edit distances with data-driven costs at the multidomain level (i.e., independent of domain costs) remains easily manageable with more than 200 different multidomain combined states. In addition, the authors introduce strategies to enhance visualization by types and domains.

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A “Global Interdependence” Approach to Multidimensional Sequence Analysis

Cited by 12 publications

References 49 publications

Intergenerational persistence of family formation trajectories among teenage-mothers and -fathers in Sweden

Intergenerational persistence of family formation trajectories among teenage-mothers and -fathers in Sweden

Aktuelle Entwicklungen in der deutschen Familiensoziologie: Theorien, Daten, Methoden

Strategies for Multidomain Sequence Analysis in Social Research

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