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Sequence Analysis

Sequence analysis is a holistic method for studying ordered categorical trajectories — such as month-by-month employment states, family life-course events, or daily activity patterns — by treating each individual's whole sequence as a unit, measuring how dissimilar pairs of sequences are, and grouping them into a typology of characteristic pathways. Introduced to sociology by Andrew Abbott, it shifts attention from isolated transitions to the shape of entire life courses.

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Sequence Analysis of Life-Course Trajectories
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / sociology
  • Abbott, A., & Tsay, A. (2000). Sequence analysis and optimal matching methods in sociology: review and prospect. Sociological Methods & Research, 29(1), 3–33. · DOI 10.1177/0049124100029001001
  • Gabadinho, A., Ritschard, G., Müller, N. S., & Studer, M. (2011). Analyzing and visualizing state sequences in R with TraMineR. Journal of Statistical Software, 40(4), 1–37. · DOI 10.18637/jss.v040.i04
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Used in the same domainIntergenerational Elasticitymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyOptimal Matching Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Used in the same domainRelational Event Modelmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familySocial Mobility Tablemachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.See alsoSocial Network Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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