title: The event history approach in demography.
abstract: "In the present paper, we shall examine...changes in the field of demography, by following the progression from period analysis to cohort analysis.  We shall discuss the hypotheses underlying each of these approaches and show how their distance from actual human behaviour could lead to mistaken or incomplete conclusions.  We shall then show how event history analysis can solve these problems and we shall define the hypotheses implied by this new approach.  Finally, we shall come back to the complimentarity of the different social sciences."
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Courgeau
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lelievre
mesh_terms: D001519:Behavior; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003710:Demography; D005190:Family; D005191:Family Characteristics; D008018:Life Cycle Stages; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012107:Research Design; D012942:Social Sciences; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Behavior; Cohort Analysis; Demographic Factors; Demography--changes; Error Sources; Family And Household; Family Research; Interdisciplinary Studies; Life Cycle; Measurement; Population; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Social Sciences; Time Factors; World