Fair and Tender Data. The FAIRness of Four Databases With Historical Individual Life Course Data Tested

Historical Life Course Studies ◽

10.51964/hlcs9559 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 ◽

pp. 13-18

Author(s):

Lex Heerma van Voss

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Data Sets ◽

Sensitive Data ◽

Individual Life ◽

Life Courses ◽

Historical Individual ◽

Historical Life

Four databases with data on individual historical life courses are tested for FAIRness: the TRA, Umeå, HSN and IPUMS databases. All databases make their data much more Findable than they were in the original sources. But as databases, they are best findable if their name is a unique acronym, and if different sub-datasets all use that same acronym. Sensitive data have to be protected. Two databases make anonymous data sets or those only containing information on deceased individuals Accessible without any formalities, and other databases could follow this example. To increase Interoperability a large number of tools are offered by the databases. Reusability is among the raisons d’être of these databases.

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How dependent were the ‘dependent poor’? Poor relief and the life-course in Terling, Essex, 1762–1834

Continuity and Change ◽

10.1017/s0268416015000223 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 193-222 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

HENRY FRENCH

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Life Histories ◽

Poor Relief ◽

Poor Law ◽

Men And Women ◽

Individual Life ◽

Southern England ◽

Life Courses ◽

The Life Course ◽

The Impact

ABSTRACTDespite the volume of research on the Old Poor Law, only in the last two decades have detailed local studies begun to assess the impact of relief payments across the life-courses of individuals. Their conclusions have been mixed. While many have found that the rural labouring poor of southern England were increasingly frequent recipients of poor relief after the 1780s, recent studies have indicated that ‘dependence’ on relief was generally intermittent, not permanent. Based on a new dataset for the Essex village of Terling, this study sets individual life-histories within the broader chronology of change to show how young, able-bodied men and women became relief recipients much more often after 1795 than they had before.

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Guilty Pleasures? Feminism and Everyday Life in the 1980s

Sisterhood and After ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190658847.003.0006 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 121-158

Author(s):

Margaretta Jolly

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Everyday Life ◽

The State ◽

Individual Life ◽

Life Courses ◽

Domestic Lives ◽

Life Course Analysis

The chapter interweaves individual life course analysis with the development of feminism, exploring the homes, food, clothes and leisure enjoyed by midlife activists. Exploring municipal feminism and Women Against Pit Closures mobilisation during the miners’ strike through the stories of Valerie Wise and Betty Cook, the chapter skirts simple narratives of movement success or decline to explore the domestic lives of feminists. These could fuel activism and enable alternative life courses and families, but also show the need for rest, pleasure and privacy. Shopping too is revealed as an area of shame as well as where feminists pioneered ethical forms of consumption, particularly in sexual goods or clubs, whilst acknowledging the divisive context of Thatcher’s Britain. The chapter closes with a portrait of Barbara Jones, radical lesbian feminist, woman builder and ecological designer, whose vivid S&A interview captures feminism’s transformative effects alongside its troubled relationship to capitalism, money and the state. 150 words

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Myten om velferdsavhengighet

Myter om velferd og velferdsstaten ◽

10.23865/noasp.47.ch3 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 59-74 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kristoffer Chelsom Vogt

Keyword(s):

At Risk ◽

Life Course ◽

State Policies ◽

Welfare States ◽

Life Course Perspective ◽

Welfare Dependency ◽

Individual Life ◽

Welfare Benefits ◽

Anglo American ◽

Historical Developments

Title: The Myth of Welfare Dependency. Summary: The myth of welfare dependency has long historical roots and is influential in both policy and research. The central idea is that receiving welfare benefits decreases people’s motivation for work and fosters a culture of dependency. The myth originates in an Anglo-American context but is also evident in a Nordic context. Nordic welfare states, with their comparatively high levels of benefits, are presumably especially at risk of encouraging welfare dependency. This article questions the myth of welfare dependency, by presenting a life-course perspective that directs our attention to relations between historical developments and individual life-course processes. Viewed from a life-course perspective, it becomes clear that the myth of welfare dependency is based upon a number of problematic premises: an individualistic and static conception of lives and relationships, a narrowly defined concept of welfare, and on several misconceptions of how welfare state policies, especially of the Nordic variety, function in practice. The dichotomy of dependence and independence upon which the myth rests is untenable when confronted with empirical life-course research, and has highly-skewed implications in terms of both gender and social class.

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Frozen transitions to adulthood of young people in Slovenia?

Sociologija ◽

10.2298/soc1202211k ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 54 (2) ◽

pp. 211-226 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Metka Kuhar ◽

Herwig Reiter

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Life Course ◽

Data Sets ◽

Societal Change ◽

Transitions To Adulthood ◽

International Data ◽

Life Course Framework ◽

Key Indicators ◽

Selection Of ◽

Youth Transitions

This article reviews key-indicators of youth transitions in Slovenia over the last decades and highlights some of the inherent tensions. Against the background of the metaphor of ?frozen transitions?, which tries to grasp some of the contradictions between the speed of societal change and the stagnating development of youth towards independence, the article describes and reflects the development of youth transitions in the three domains of employment, housing and parenthood. The basis is a selection of indicators available in international data sets and surveys that allow to trace the change at least over the last two decades after the breakdown of Yugoslavia. Our findings indicate that transitions in Slovenia are frozen in all three domains, which challenges the usefulness of the conventional life course framework for studying post-communist contexts.

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Data Privacy Preservation and Security Approaches for Sensitive Data in Big Data

10.3233/apc210221 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Rohit Ravindra Nikam ◽

Rekha Shahapurkar

Keyword(s):

Data Mining ◽

Data Analytics ◽

Data Privacy ◽

Privacy Preservation ◽

Large Data ◽

Research Area ◽

Data Sets ◽

Sensitive Information ◽

Sensitive Data ◽

Data Mining Techniques

Data mining is a technique that explores the necessary data is extracted from large data sets. Privacy protection of data mining is about hiding the sensitive information or identity of breach security or without losing data usability. Sensitive data contains confidential information about individuals, businesses, and governments who must not agree upon before sharing or publishing his privacy data. Conserving data mining privacy has become a critical research area. Various evaluation metrics such as performance in terms of time efficiency, data utility, and degree of complexity or resistance to data mining techniques are used to estimate the privacy preservation of data mining techniques. Social media and smart phones produce tons of data every minute. To decision making, the voluminous data produced from the different sources can be processed and analyzed. But data analytics are vulnerable to breaches of privacy. One of the data analytics frameworks is recommendation systems commonly used by e-commerce sites such as Amazon, Flip Kart to recommend items to customers based on their purchasing habits that lead to characterized. This paper presents various techniques of privacy conservation, such as data anonymization, data randomization, generalization, data permutation, etc. such techniques which existing researchers use. We also analyze the gap between various processes and privacy preservation methods and illustrate how to overcome such issues with new innovative methods. Finally, our research describes the outcome summary of the entire literature.

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The Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) for Longitudinal Historical Microdata, version 4

Historical Life Course Studies ◽

10.51964/hlcs9290 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 1-26

Author(s):

George Alter ◽

Kees Mandemakers

Keyword(s):

Data Structure ◽

Social Research ◽

Geospatial Information ◽

Data Format ◽

Standard Data ◽

Intermediate Data ◽

Hierarchical Relationships ◽

Life Courses ◽

Historical Life

The Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) is a standard data format that has been adopted by several large longitudinal databases on historical populations. Since the publication of the first version in Historical Social Research in 2009, two improved and extended versions have been published in the Collaboratory Historical Life Courses. In this publication we present version 4 which is the latest ‘official’ standard of the IDS. Discussions with users over the last four years resulted in important changes, like the inclusion of a new table defining the hierarchical relationships among ‘contexts’, decision schemes for recording relationships, additional fields in the metadata table, rules for handling stillbirths, a reciprocal model for relationships, guidance for linking IDS data with geospatial information, and the introduction of an extended IDS for computed variables.

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HEALTH CARE PRIORITIES OF OLDER KOREAN IMMIGRANTS: THROUGH THE LENS OF LIFE COURSE THEORY

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igz038.3269 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. S894-S894

Author(s):

Hyeyoung K Park ◽

Sharron L Docherty ◽

Cristina C Hendrix ◽

Ruth A Anderson ◽

Kimberly S Johnson

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Life Course ◽

Turning Point ◽

Life Experiences ◽

Korean Immigrants ◽

Life Course Theory ◽

Linked Lives ◽

The Us ◽

Older Korean Immigrants ◽

Life Courses

Abstract More than half of Korean Americans living in the US are immigrants, these immigrants hold unique cultural perspectives, including collectivism and filial piety that originates from Korean culture. Every older adult has life experiences and background that build and shape their own wishes and values for their health care goals. Thus, a qualitative descriptive study was conducted using the Life Course Theory as a guiding framework to examine older Korean immigrants’ health care goals and the influence of their life courses. Twenty six interviews from 13 participants were analyzed using content thematic analysis. Study rigor was ensured by audit trail, peer debriefing, and prolonged engagement. Data were organized under five overarching themes: health care priorities, time, location, linked lives, and turning point. Older Korean immigrants valued painlessness and being independent as health care goals (Health care priorities). They experienced a dynamic historical period in Korea before immigrating to the US (Time). Once they reached the US, they were disconnected from their social support and traditional values (Location). Children and Korean churches constitute older Korean immigrants’ primary support system once in the US (Linked lives). Their tumultuous life experiences contributed to their current perspectives on health care goals and priorities (Turning point). In studies of older immigrant populations, it is important to acknowledge individual differences while simultaneously understanding the general life history and cultural background behind individuals’ values and perspectives. Life course approach provides both a contextual understanding of older adults’ backgrounds and the trajectories of their individual life courses.

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A STUDY OF THE LEP AND SLD MEASUREMENTS OF Ab

Modern Physics Letters A ◽

10.1142/s0217732300000748 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 15 (11n12) ◽

pp. 761-774 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

J. H. FIELD ◽

D. SCIARRINO

Keyword(s):

Systematic Study ◽

Model Prediction ◽

Standard Model Prediction ◽

Systematic Errors ◽

New Physics ◽

Data Sets ◽

Statistical Fluctuation ◽

Sensitive Data ◽

Present Generation ◽

The Standard Model

A systematic study is made of the data dependence of the parameter A b , that, since 1995, has shown a deviation from the Standard Model prediction of between 2.4 and 3.1 standard deviations. Issues addressed include: The effect of particular measurements, values found by individual experiments, LEP/SLD comparison, and the treatment of systematic errors. The effect, currently at the 2.4σ level, is found to vary in the range from 1.7σ to 2.9σ by excluding marginal or particularly sensitive data. Since essentially the full LEP and SLD Z-decay data sets are now analyzed the meaning of the deviation, (new physics or marginal statistical fluctuation) is unlikely to be given by the present generation of colliders.

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