Completing Life Histories with Imputed Exit Dates
A Method for Historical Data from Passive Registration Systems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12863767 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Alter (0000-0003-3823-4972, corresponding author), Isabelle Devos (0000-0002-6111-711X), Alison Kvetko |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 293-293 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population (English Edition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1634-2941 • E-ISSN: 1958-9190 |
| Publisher | CAIRN (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3917/pope.902.0293 |
| OpenAlex | W2055260060 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 13 |
Life histories can often be reconstructed from administrative sources and other documents that report specific events, like birth, death, visiting a physician, applying for insurance, or using a service. In a passive system, individuals are not under continuous surveillance, and subjects are only known to be present when an event occurs. When individuals move out of the registration area without reporting their movements, the censoring times for those life histories are unobserved. This paper describes a new technique for imputing missing exit dates. Our approach uses information from other events (e.g. births, marriages, deaths) affecting the subject and closely related individuals to estimate the distribution of times between last observed events and (unobserved) exits from the registration area. We take into account differences related to age, sex, marital status, and past migration history. The method is tested on data from nineteenth-century Belgium in which exit dates are explicitly reported. Abstract: Les biographies sont souvent construites a partir de sources administratives et d'autres documents qui temoignent d'evenements particuliers comme une naissance, un deces, une visite chez le medecin, une demande de contrat d'assurance ou le recours a un service. Dans un systeme d'« enregistrement passif », les individus ne sont pas observes de facon continue, mais lorsqu'un evenement se produit. Quand une personne quitte la zone couverte par le systeme d'enregistrement sans en faire la declaration, la date d'interruption de son histoire de vie reste inconnue. Cet article presente une nouvelle technique d'imputation des dates de sortie manquantes. Les informations concernant d'autres evenements (naissances, mariages, deces...) qui touchent l'individu ou ses proches sont utilisees pour estimer la distribution des durees ecoulees entre le dernier evenement enregistre et la sortie (non observee) de la zone etudiee. Sont ici prises en compte les differences d'âge, de sexe, de situation matrimoniale et de passe migratoire. La methode est ensuite testee sur un ensemble de donnees belges du xix e siecle ou figurent explicitement les dates de sortie d'observation. Abstract: Las historias de vida son construidas frecuentemente a partir de fuentes administrativas y de otros documentos que atestan de la existencia de acontecimientos particulares como un nacimiento, una defuncion, una visita al medico, la suscripcion de un contrato de seguro o el recurso a un servicio determinado. En un sistema de pasivo, los individuos no son observados de forma continua sino solo cuando el acontecimiento se produce. Si una persona abandona la zona cubierta por el sistema de registro sin declararlo, la fecha de interrupcion de su historia de vida es desconocida. Este articulo presenta una nueva tecnica de imputacion de las fechas de salida desconocidas. Las informaciones sobre los acontecimientos (nacimientos, matrimonios, defunciones...) que afectan al individuo o a sus familiares son utilizadas para estimar la distribucion del tiempo pasado entre el ultimo acontecimiento registrado y la salida (no observada) de la zona estudiada. Se toman en cuenta las diferencias de edad, de sexo, de situacion matrimonial y de pasado migratorio. El metodo utilizado es testado sobre una serie de datos belgas del siglo XIX en los que las fechas de salida de observacion son conocidas
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |