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Recovering Event Histories by Cubic Spline Interpolation

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Ted Bergstrom (University of California, Santa Barbara)
David Lam (University of Michigan)

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If event histories are recorded in discrete intervals of times, errors are introduced when the data are converted from the unit in which they were recorded, such as date, to another unit such as age or duration. The problem is illustrated by the inconsistent age at marriage schedules published by two recent U.S. censuses. This paper develops a general method for fixing problems of this kind by using cubic spline interpolation. We use the method to adjust U.S. age at marriage data, thus resolving a large proportion of the discrepancy between 1960 and 1970 censuses.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara in its series University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series with number 1988A.

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Date of creation: 15 Jul 1988
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Handle: RePEc:cdl:ucsbec:1988a

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Keywords: age at marriage; demographic data; cubic spline interpolation;

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