Management of Event History Data and Episode Splitting Using the AGIPEB-Dataset

Abstract

During the AGIPEB-Project several event history analyses were implemented to find an-swers to the question to what extent fixed-term employment as well as other sociostructural or labour market variables influence transition-rates into partnership-stabilizing events. These events under consideration were: cohabitation, marriage, parenthood and homeownership. While we relied on cox regressions and exponential models in earlier studies, we went on to use piecewise-constant models in later phases of the project. In the present working paper we document the data management and the episode splitting process in praparation for our empirical analyses (for these analyses see the remaining working papers in the AGIPEB-series). For all our data management as well as episode splitting we used Stata IC, Version 14.