VET Congress 2025: Outstanding papers in Gender Research What are today's opportunities and challenges of contemporary career transitions in Vocational and Professional Education and Training (VET/PET)? This was the central theme of the 8th International VE...

What are the opportunities & challenges of today’s career transitions in VET/PET?
266 participants from 33 countries explored this at #VETCongress2025 in Lausanne – 3 days of global exchange, keynotes & award-winning research: www.sfuvet.swiss/news/vet-con...

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Towards more life-course-sensitive decompositions of group-inequalities 2024-04-24 | Input Talk | Carla Rowold Abstract Life courses become increasingly complex and determine inequalities in outcomes between groups. However, research often decomposes group gaps in life-course-sensitive outcomes based on a selective set of life course summary measures, such as the years spent in (full-time) employment. One example of group-specific outcomes is the Gender Pension Gap. In my dissertation I developed and applied two innovative combinations of methods: i) sequence analysis with the Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, as well as ii) the Life Course Feature Selection with the Ñopo decomposition. This talk guides through the practical application of both and presents the methodological and substantial contributions of both approaches that can be easily applied to other life-course-sensitive group inequalities. Presenter(s) Carla Rowold is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Oxford and a postdoctoral researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Demographic Research. In her dissertation, she explores life-course- and gender-sensitive approaches to assess the link between gender inequalities over the life course and the Gender Pension Gap. Her research interests cover life course sociology and inequalities, particularly among genders, social demography, and work-family and retirement policies.

Interested in quantifying the association of group-specific life courses with group-based inequalities?🕵️‍♀️

Check out my talk on life-course-sensitive decompositions of group-inequalities! Both approaches reveal mechanisms that are concealed in standard decompositions
📽️youtube.com/watch?v=tQ9MEWkMWvs

Step-by-step tutorial on using the method (CLARA) in R with the WeightedCluster package for sequence analsyis for large databases : cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

Sequence Analysis for Large Databases, Working paper (open access): dx.doi.org/10.12682/liv...

@seqanalysisassn.bsky.social Webinar's recording: Sequence Analysis for Large Databases

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(Free registration required.)

Our next webinar will be on March 20th at 4pm CET with a presentation from Matthias studer @matstud.bsky.social on seq analysis for large administrative data. Zoom link and more info on our website sequenceanalysis.org/webinars/

• CALL FOR PAPERS –  2026 CPoS Special Issue “Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course”

Comparative Population Studies welcomes submissions to the 2026 special issue Migration Trajectories Across the Life Course, guest edited by Sergi Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Aude Bernard…

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New article with Kevin Emery and André Berchtold:

A systematic comparison of methods (MICT-Timing) to impute missing longitudinal categorical data

Also propose new MICT-Timing algorihtm.

Methods suitable for #SequenceAnalysis and available in seqimpute #Rpackage

doi.org/10.1007/s111...

Next Week on Thursday Jan 16th at 4 pm CET we will back with our first webinar of the year. Info and link at sequenceanalysis.org/webinars/

Are you planning to attend PAA meeting in Washington DC? Consider to present your work in our one day workshop on sequence analysis.
Papers on both applications of SA or new approaches with SA are welcome.
The event is free of charge. More info on our website

CALL FOR PAPERS!

One day workshop on sequence analysis on April 9, 2025 in Washington DC (before the @popassocamerica.bsky.social annual meeting). Free of charge - onsite only event.

For expressing your interest in attending and/or presenting a paper: sequenceanalysis.org/conference/

The procedure provides robust estimates for an association of interest.
It also identifies central and borderline trajectories within each cluster.
The method is illustrated through a study of healthcare use trajectories in a Swiss cohort of diabetic patients.

We propose a new procedure to take sampling uncertainty based on bootstraps. In each bootstrap, a new typology and regression are estimated. The bootstrap estimates are then combined using a meta-analysis framework.

#SequenceAnalysis is often used to create a typology of trajectories. This typology is then used in regressions to study the association between trajectories and covariates.

By doing so, sampling uncertainty, which affects both the typology and the regressions, is ignored.

Robustness assessment of regressions using cluster analysis typologies: a bootstrap procedure with application in state sequence analysis - BMC Medical Research Methodology Background In standard Sequence Analysis, similar trajectories are clustered together to create a typology of trajectories, which is then often used to evaluate the association between sequence patter...

A key article for the development of robust #SequenceAnalysis @seqanalysisassn.bsky.social

The new framework takes into account measurement error when creating a typology with cluster analysis and using it in subsequent analysis.

doi.org/10.1186/s128...

Today last Sequence Analysis Webinar of 2024! As usual at 4pm CET:

Zoom link and more info at sequenceanalysis.org/webinars/

SAA members!! Remember to cast your vote at the 2024 General Assembly by Dec 20th for the presidential and EC election

(You need to access with your login details to get the link to cast your vote)

sequenceanalysis.org/2024/12/04/2...

Today Sequence Analysis Webinar at 4pm CET:
Two presentations
- Claus Hansen, Using sequence analysis in the description and analysis of short-term sickness absence – a longitudinal study.
- Han Liu, Power Dynamics in Interracial Dating Relationships.
Zoom link at sequenceanalysis.org/webinars/

SAVE THE DATE. Two webinars to close this year of the Seq Analysis online webinar series.
- Thursday Dec 12
- Thursday Dec 19
Both at 4pm CET

as usual check the website for more info and link
Sequenceanalysis.org/webinars

SAA GA and President Election: are you a registered SAA member? Check your inbox! You should have received an email about our upcoming General Election and vote for the new SA president. If you haven’t received it please update your contact info on sequenceanalysis.org -> login and cast your vote!

This article develops and reviews methods for the creation of sequence analysis typologies in large databases, which rapidly faces computational issues. It proposes an extension of the CLARA clustering algorithm and discusses three approaches to measure the quality of the clustering.

New Working Paper

#SequenceAnalysis for Large Databases

dx.doi.org/10.12682/liv...

Rcode available in new WeightedCluster version 1.8-0
Check
?seqclararange

Two 3-year PhD fellowships are available within the remit of my ERC project on the risks and vulnerability of widowhood across ageing societies!!!

Deadline for applications - December 10
Start date - September 1

www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...

Great paper!

Are you working on a paper using sequence analysis /SA related method and want to discuss some aspects of it?

Consider our webinar series "work-in-progress edition"!

Deadline for submission (for presenting Feb.-May) Jan.5th 2025.

More info and form at sequenceanalysis.org/saa-webinar-...

Back to the Features. Investigating the Relationship... This article compares two methods to study the link between educational pathways and income. Sequence analysis provides a holistic view but might...

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