Log-Linear Mobility Model
Log-linear mobility models analyze an origin-by-destination mobility table by modeling the logarithm of its expected cell counts as a sum of terms: separate effects for the origin and destination marginals plus interaction terms that capture the origin–destination association. By specifying that association parametrically — through diagonal, level, or scaled terms — these models test precise hypotheses about the structure of social fluidity independent of the changing sizes of classes.
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- Hauser, R. M. (1978). A structural model of the mobility table. Social Forces, 56(3), 919–953. DOI: 10.1093/sf/56.3.919 ↗
- Goodman, L. A. (1979). Simple models for the analysis of association in cross-classifications having ordered categories. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 74(367), 537–552. DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1979.10481650 ↗
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ScholarGate. (2026, June 22). Log-Linear Models for Social Mobility Tables. ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/en/sociology/log-linear-mobility-model
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