Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10471545 | Social Science & Medicine | 2012 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
⺠The author discusses age-period-cohort analyses by distinguishing the concept of time in terms of composition and context. ⺠Age is a composition of time, whereas both period and cohort can be conceptualized as a context of time. ⺠Age is a compositional variable, and a hypothetical intervention to change age is at the individual level. ⺠Two distinct types of hypothetical interventions can be envisaged to examine the contextual effects of period and cohort. ⺠Context is proposed to be classified into three fundamental dimensions - relational, spatial, and temporal.
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Authors
Etsuji Suzuki,