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This chapter shows how traditionally individual-oriented event history analysis may be generalized to model household history. These models raise an important distinction between different time scales. A first scale uses a common time origin for all episodes, while the second one introduces a waiting time for each change in household size. These two clocks lead to different results when applied to a retrospective life history survey undertaken in France. The discussion of these results leads to a preference for the waiting time model for household history analysis.
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Courgeau, D. (1995). Event History Analysis of Household Formation and Dissolution. In: van Imhoff, E., Kuijsten, A., Hooimeijer, P., van Wissen, L. (eds) Household Demography and Household Modeling. The Plenum Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5424-7_8
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