Do imputed educational histories provide satisfactory results in fertility analysis in the West German context?

Autor/in	Zabel, Cordula
Institution	Max-Planck-Institut für Demografische Forschung
Titel	Do imputed educational histories provide satisfactory results in fertility analysis in the West German context? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Bieten kalkulatorische Bildungsgeschichten zufriedenstellende Ergebnisse in der Fertilitätsanalyse für die alten Bundesländer?
Quelle	Rostock (2007), 11 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	MPIDR Working Paper. 2007-022
Beigaben	Tabellen 3
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Bildungsniveau; Geburtenentwicklung; Geburtenrückgang; Fruchtbarkeit; Geburtenhäufigkeit; Geburtenfolge; Deutschland
Abstract	"This paper investigates how well imputed educational histories perform in the analysis of first birth rates in the West German context. The focus here is on the quality of estimates when only rudimentary information on the timing of education is available. In many surveys, information on respondents' educational histories is restricted to the highest level of educational attained by the time of interview and the date at which this highest degree was attained. Skeleton educational histories can be imputed simply from such rudimentary information. The German Life History Study has complete educational histories. We use these to compare estimates based on the complete histories with estimates based on corresponding imputed histories. We find that the imputed histories produce relatively reliable estimates of the effect on first-birth rates of having a university degree vs. having a vocational certificate. Estimating corresponding rates for women who have no such education proved to cause greater difficulties." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2008/2