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Formal Population Geography will focus on the life course as the paradigm for studying social and demographic change and on life events and on cohorts of individuals experiencing such events as the basic units of analysis. Two fundamental and complementary approaches will be examined: the event history approach and the multistate approach. The former perspective focuses on the life course as a sequence of events, the latter views it as a sequence of states (or statuses) occupied. Thus the first approach deals with an event-oriented data structure, whereas the second requires a person-oriented data structure. Event history analysis tends to be characterized as statistical microdemography; multistate demographic analysis tends to be viewed more as mathematical macrodemography. |