How reliable are web surveys for studying family structure & relationships? Comparing #KINMATRIX survey with demographic projections/surveys/registers for 10 Western countries reveals the potential & limits of nonprobability data in family demography. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
Marcel Raab
@raabm.bsky.social
Researcher | State Institute for Family Research - Uni of Bamberg Author | Sequence Analysis (Book); ggseqplot (R package) Editor & Deputy Managing Director | Journal of Family Research
*Sequence Analysis in the Social Sciences* with @emstruffolino.bsky.social & @raabm.bsky.social. 🗓️ 21-22 & 28-29 October 2026 🏢 Online 🌐 t1p.de/SequenceAnal...
Join the #sequenceanalyisis #GESISworkshop @gesistraining.bsky.social with @raabm.bsky.social and myself to describe, visualize & analyze sequences — hands-on in R with real-world examples, November 2025, info training.gesis.org?site=pDetail...
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I've written a short blog post introducing "The Art of Visualization with ggplot2"! This book is all about the end-to-end process of creating charts with #ggplot2 📊 including data wrangling, sketching, and styling your plots! nrennie.rbind.io/blog/art-of-... #RStats #DataViz #TidyTuesday
Introducing The Art of Visualization with ggplot2 – Nicola Rennie
I’ve written a book! This blog post gives a brief introduction to The Art of Visualization with ggplot2, a book of data visualization case studies showing the end-to-end process of building charts, st...
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Some good news to brighten up your feed: Our #R package 📦 DemoKin for the demographic analysis of kinship has a new website with extensive documentation and literature 🎉🎈 @mpidr.bsky.social If you don't know it yet, why not check it out? ivanwilli.github.io/DemoKin/inde...
1/2 Back from #PAA. Saw many sequence analysis applications — not all with great visualization. No need to overcomplicate: #TraMineR (base R) and #ggseqplot (CRAN update just out) offer solid tools for clear, appealing sequence data viz. @seqanalysisassn.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social
📣 new #article Housing cost burden of migrants and natives across the income distribution. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Key findings ▪️ rent burden is distributed increasingly unequal ▪️ the polarization is more pronounced among migrants ▪️ migrants faced steeper rent hikes than natives
I am happy to share my paper about "Young adults' gendered trajectories of routine housework time when leaving home" that I did with @raabm.bsky.social in JMF (@ncfr.bsky.social). Please spread the word! doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
Objective To examine young adult women's and men's time use for routine housework when moving out of the parental household. Background From a life-course perspective, establishing an own househol...
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The big genealogical database #FamiLinx, which contains extensive demographic and #kinship information, offers much promise for demographic research but careful sample #selection is necessary. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
It is finally alive! The almighty database of our mapineq.eu -Horizon Europe project. Design and implementation by @melindacmills.bsky.social and Doug Leisure, hosted at University of Groningen. 1/3
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Mapineq Link Webinar Series will introduce you to an interactive geospatial tool for visualising population and inequality indicators at the local level! 📅 9-11 December 🕛 13:00-14:00 CET 📍 online Register here: mapineq.eu/mapineq-link... #MapIneq @janierola.net
Radiating exuberant euphoria 🥳🎉🥂, I announce that our study with initial results from the #KINMATRIX survey has been published 👉 doi.org/10.1111/jomf.... KINMATRIX is a unique new source of ego-centric network data that offers unprecedented scope and detail in mapping family relations. #Demography
<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
Objective This study presents initial results from the KINMATRIX survey, a large-scale source of ego-centric network data offering an unprecedented level of scope and detail in mapping family relati...
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Sociologists agree: "We find that millionaire tax flight is occurring, but only at the margins of statistical and socioeconomic significance." doi.org/10.1177/0003...
Millionaire Migration and Taxation of the Elite: Evidence from Administrative Data - Cristobal Young, Charles Varner, Ithai Z. Lurie, Richard Prisinzano, 2016
A growing number of U.S. states have adopted “millionaire taxes” on top income-earners. This increases the progressivity of state tax systems, but it raises con...
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Fascinating and important research by Andy Summers and co at LSE. Public perception that super rich will leave if taxes rise is based on a very biased signal from a tiny number who threaten to leave. The majority would never leave NY, London, Paris etc www.ft.com/content/4232...
In our paper, we adapt @joannapepin.bsky.social's visualization of U.S. couples' money arrangements to the German context. Using German Family Panel data, we show how these arrangements vary by cohort and age group. Replication files + high-res plot: github.com/maraab23/Cou... #FReDA #pairfam
#Published: "Couples' money arrangements in Germany: Visualizing cohort, age group, and partnership type variations", by @raabm.bsky.social & @flociologist.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1177/2378...). #sociology #demography #openaccess #openscience
I did a visualization of the development of housework time in West and East Germany with the German Time Use Study, 1991-2022. Available from @socarxiv.bsky.social : doi.org/10.31235/osf... Hope someone finds it useful! #sociology #demography
New in the newsletter / Nuevo en la newsletter: English: The Open Visualization Academy is coming in 2025 theartofinsight.substack.com/p/the-open-v... Español: La Open Visualization Academy llegará en 2025 albertocairo.substack.com/p/la-open-vi... #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism
The Open Visualization Academy is coming in 2025
My next big project is finally taking shape
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KINMATRIX: A new data resource for studies of families and kinship www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
Demographic Research - KINMATRIX: A new data resource for studies of families and kinship (Volume 51 - Article 25 | Pages 789–808)
Volume 51 - Article 25 | Pages 789–808
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Still some time to register for the #GESISworkshop on #SequenceAnalysis in #R in October with @raabm.bsky.social and myself! More info here training.gesis.org?site=pDetail...
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📣 JFR's Impact Factor has again increased since last year and now sits at 2.9 according to the 2024 Journal Citation Report by Clarivate Analytics. #JFamRes #openaccess #OpenScience #sociology #demography
Ich freue mich das gemeinsame Forschungsprojekt mit @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social und Martin Gädecke zu Familienkomplexitäten aus der Perspektive von Kindern und deren Folgen vorzustellen. Vielen Dank für die Einladung! 😊 👇
@crowold.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social #sociology #demography
Reminder! Still time to register for a 20-hour online workshop on “Sequenc Aanalysis in the Social Sciences”, July 22, 2024 – July 26, 2024 (9:00 AM-1:00 PM ET (US) at the 2024 @ICPSRSummer, with myself and @raabm.bsky.social! Full program here icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/su...
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The ICPSR Summer Program offers introductory to advanced courses in statistics, quantitative methods, and data analysis. We train students, faculty, and researchers.
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I am super excited to announce the first release of marquee - supercharged markdown support for #ggplot2 (and #rstats graphics in general) Read all about it here: tidyverse.org/blog/2024/05... and browse the package site at: marquee.r-lib.org
marquee 0.1.0 - Tidyverse
The initial release brings markdown awareness to grid and ggplot2 to allow for rich text formatting in R graphics.
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@raabm.bsky.social and I will host a 20-hour online workshop on “Sequence Analysis in the Social Sciences”, July 22, 2024 – July 26, 2024 (9:00 AM-1:00 PM ET (US) at the 2024 @ICPSRSummer, check the full program here www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/su...
How do teenagers spend their time? 🧐 We use social sequence analysis and high-frequency time-use diaries to identify and visualise typical time-use patterns of teenagers in Germany. Preprint with @miriamsglrtmr.bsky.social and Anette Fasang 👉 doi.org/10.31235/osf...
{marginaleffects} 0.16.0: A unified interface to interpret results from 100+ statistical and machine learning models in #RStats! Predictions, slopes, differences, ratios & much more! See our new vignettes on Matching, Inverse Probability Weighting & ML: marginaleffects.com
🔥 On Thursday (10/19) at 4 pm CET, the Sequence Analysis Association is hosting a webinar featuring @satuhelske.bsky.social and Matthias Studer, who will discuss recent developments in sequence cluster analysis. 👉 sequenceanalysis.org/webinars/
Webinar Series of the Sequence Analysis Association – Sequence Analysis Association
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🎵 Research in the #Bluesky with 💎 (#openaccess). 📣 We’re seeking innovative manuscripts in family research, primarily from #sociology and #demography. We value creativity, contribution to knowledge, and state-of-the-art methodology. Join us in advancing the field of family science! #JFR #JFamRes
Reading the decision letter one gets the feeling that it is a bit of a homemade problem
Too old to attend, but happy to promote: 15th Conference of Young Demographers 7–9 February 2024, Prague. Call for papers: t.co/O7kmzLsBTH website: youngdemographers.github.io/conference.h...