Building Cross-National, Longitudinal Data Sets
Issues and Strategies for Implementation
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 9952009 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Nicholas E Reith (The University of Texas at Austin, autor correspondente), P Paxton (0000-0002-3562-5583, The University of Texas at Austin), Melanie M Hughes (0000-0002-8724-5355, University of Pittsburgh) |
| Ano | 2016 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 21-41 |
| Data de publicação | 2016-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | International Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0020-7659 • E-ISSN: 1557-9336 |
| Editora | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00207659.2016.1130416 |
| OpenAlex | W2300940688 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 4 |
| Referências citadas | 41 |
With recent advances in computing power enhancing the ability of social scientists to analyze newly available “big data,” there is a new set of challenges for researchers building cross-national, longitudinal data sets. While scholars should embrace these new sources of data, we must carefully consider cleaning and coding decisions and how these influence our ultimate findings. In this article, we outline five common issues that researchers may face in building large cross-national, longitudinal data sets and suggest strategies for how to address each: (1) country data consistency including births, deaths, splits, unifications, and name changes, (2) longitudinal string matching, (3) identifying different types of missing data, (4) using these types of missing data in developing a theoretically and empirically grounded imputation strategy, and (5) understanding whether systemic change is driven by real world processes or by coding/cleaning choices. We also touch briefly on some general technical and technological considerations when working with large data sets. Throughout, we illustrate issues and strategies with examples drawn from our experience building a cross-national, longitudinal network data set of country-international nongovernmental organization memberships
Big data · Coding (social sciences · Consistency (knowledge bases · Data mining · Data science · Imputation (statistics · Longitudinal data · Machine learning · Matching (statistics · Missing data · Set (abstract data type · Social science · Sociology · Statistics · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Data Analysis and Archiving · Health disparities and outcomes · Mathematics · Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
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| Citações por ano | 0,57 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
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