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As brief definitions like the one from the educational area point out, longitudinal studies are conducted with identical of similar groups over a long period of time in order to discover the effects of time on some factor of interest. The number of times the study is repeated is immaterial.As James Fuller points out, people conducting longitudinal studies for developmental purposes, regardless of what is the focus of that development, need stability in as many factors as possible in order to facilitate their work. The State of Florida developed a developmental research school in 1934 in order to provide just such a research base in the area of education. Most researchers do not have the luxury of such an establishment.
Examples of Longitudinal Research
- Alcohol and welfare
- Case study highlighting ethical issues of longitudinal research
- Material on the feminization of poverty
- New Zealand examples in Education
- Domestic abuse
- [PDF] 10-year University access and success study
- Re-thinking "exit points" in homeless transition programs
Further Resources
- Keynote speech- Three advances in methodology
- Annotated syllabus with problem set
- Book on cross-national studies in criminology
- Design for Descriptive studies from the health care field
- HRDC alternatives to expensive longitudinal studies
- British Joint Center for Longitudinal Statistics
- Grad level course with rotating material
- Course syllabus and bibliography
- US Government Longitudinal Research Database
- US Government Dept. of Labor Studies