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This chapter has five sections. First are some comments on the term longitudinal. Second, formal relations among age, period, and cohort effects are discussed. The third section deals with attempts to shorten the period of data collection. Documentary procedures are considered as alternatives to retrospective approaches. Then, the problem of keeping the theoretical relevance of a protracted research project is posed. Finally, the possibilities of longitudinal studies as compared with those of other approaches are outlined. A preliminary version of the chapter forms most of a research report from Project Metropolitan (Janson, 1978, pp. 7–52; for a presentation of Project Metropolitan, see Janson, 1975).
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Janson, CG. (1981). Some Problems of Longitudinal Research in the Social Sciences. In: Schulsinger, F., Mednick, S.A., Knop, J. (eds) Longitudinal Research. Longitudinal Research in the Behavioral, Social, and Medical Studies, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8147-8_2
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