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From published census data, we have a regular tracker of changes in New Zealand society, at least insofar as this is reflected in aggregate social and demographic indicators. With the assistance of the NZLC, we now also have changes occurring at the level of individuals, as captured in a set of linked synthetic data derived from census information that is recorded and linked at the micro level. Thus, the aggregations documented by the 5-yearly census can be viewed as the outcome of myriads of biographies or trajectories that individuals trace through their lives and that in part reflect the changing patterning of the life course. In this chapter we demonstrate how those aggregations can be broken down into the meaningful dynamics of people’s lives and how these have changed and evolved over time.
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Davis, P., Lay-Yee, R. (2019). Tracking Societal Change: Its Major Components. In: Simulating Societal Change. Computational Social Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04786-3_4
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