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Presenter<br />

Croon, Marcel; <strong>Tilburg</strong> School of Social and Behavioral Sciences<br />

Authors<br />

Marcel Croon; Jacques A. Hagenaars; Department Methodology and Statistics,<br />

<strong>Tilburg</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />

Wicher Bergsma; London School of Economics and Political Science, UK<br />

Francesca Bassi; <strong>University</strong> of Padova, Padova, Italy<br />

Title<br />

Marginal models for longitudinal categorical data from a complex rotating design<br />

Abstract<br />

In their book Marginal Models for Dependent, Clustered, and Longitudinal<br />

Categorical Data (2009), Bergsma, Croon & Hagenaars discuss several<br />

applications of marginal models for categorical data observed in longitudinal<br />

studies. They distinguish between the analysis of trend data, when different<br />

random samples from the same population are drawn at different time points,<br />

and panel data, when the same random sample from a population is observed at<br />

different time points. For both types of data, they discuss how various<br />

hypotheses about gross and net changes over time can be tested by marginal<br />

modeling.<br />

These methods can be extended to the case the data are collected in a<br />

more complex way, for instance, by means of a rotating design in which different<br />

random cross-sectional samples are followed over time at different measurement<br />

occasions. The data which will be analyzed come from the Italian Continuous<br />

Quarterly Labour Force Survey, which is cross-sectional with a 2-2-2 rotating<br />

design. The questionnaire yields multiple indicators of labour force participation<br />

for each quarter: (i) each respondent is classified as employed, unemployed or<br />

out of the labour market according to the definition of the International Labour<br />

Office on the bases of answers given to a group of questions (ii) each<br />

respondent is asked to classify himself as employed, unemployed or out of the<br />

labour market, the so-called self-perceived condition; and (iii) a retrospective

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