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cohort, cohort analysis The term cohort originally referred to a Roman military unit, but it is now used to identify any group of people with a time-specific common experience, such as graduating from school in the same year, or cohorts defined by time of marriage or widowhood. Cohort analysis refers to any study in which there are measures of some characteristics of one or more cohorts at regular intervals after the defining event.
Cohort analysis as a method of research was developed by demographers and applied primarily to the study of fertility. The most common type of cohort analysis uses age-groups (birth cohorts), for example five- or ten-year age-bands, to study mortality rates. The individuals within the bands move through the ageing process together as a cohort, and often become identified as a distinct group, such as the ‘Baby-Boomers’ or ‘Ageing-Hippies’. This approach is especially common in secondary analysis, as age is a commonly recorded item of information in population census data-sets, and in data from registers and administrative records. Cohort analysis can also be applied to repeated cross-sectional survey data-sets, where samples are large enough to distinguish a number of cohorts defined by (for example) age, or year of first childbirth. Proxy cohort data or analysis is achieved by tracking the characteristics of ten-year age-groups through successive decennial population censuses or equivalent large data-sets. The critical problem of cohort analysis is to differentiate age, cohort, and period effects. Age effects are associated with growing older; cohort effects are common to people born at the same time; period effects are due to the shared experience of particular historical events—for example the Second World War. Unfortunately there is no simple way of disentangling these. This is important substantively: because the effects are confounded, different interpretations of change are usually possible (for example, observed cultural, political, or social changes may be due to cohort effects or ageing), and conclusions have to be correspondingly tentative. When informed by sound theory, however, cohort analysis is a powerful analytic technique (see H. Blossfeld , ‘Career Opportunities in the Federal Republic of Germany: A Dynamic Approach to Study Life Course, Cohort and Period Effects’, European Sociological Review, 1986 ). |
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GORDON MARSHALL. "cohort." A Dictionary of Sociology. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. GORDON MARSHALL. "cohort." A Dictionary of Sociology. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O88-cohort.html GORDON MARSHALL. "cohort." A Dictionary of Sociology. 1998. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O88-cohort.html |
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co·hort / ˈkōˌhôrt/ • n. 1. [treated as sing. or pl.] an ancient Roman military unit, comprising six centuries, equal to one tenth of a legion. 2. [treated as sing. or pl.] a group of people banded together or treated as a group: a cohort of civil servants. ∎ a group of people with a common statistical characteristic: the 1940–44 birth cohort of women. 3. a supporter or companion. ∎ an accomplice or conspirator. |
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"cohort." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "cohort." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-cohort.html "cohort." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-cohort.html |
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"Cohort." Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. 1985. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Cohort." Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. 1985. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2505300343.html "Cohort." Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. 1985. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2505300343.html |
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cohort A Roman military unit of 600 soldiers, a tenth of a legion, commanded by tribunes. Paul was in the charge of a centurion who belonged to the Augustan cohort (Acts 27: 1).
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W. R. F. BROWNING. "cohort." A Dictionary of the Bible. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. W. R. F. BROWNING. "cohort." A Dictionary of the Bible. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O94-cohort.html W. R. F. BROWNING. "cohort." A Dictionary of the Bible. 1997. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O94-cohort.html |
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cohort body of infantry in the ancient Roman army; also transf. XV. — (O)F. cohorte or L. cohors, cohort- enclosure, company, crowd, f. CO- + *hort-, as in hortus garden.
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T. F. HOAD. "cohort." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "cohort." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-cohort.html T. F. HOAD. "cohort." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-cohort.html |
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1. A group of individuals of the same age. 2. In plant taxonomy, a little-used term meaning a group of related families. 3. In animal taxonomy, a group of orders. |
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MICHAEL ALLABY. "cohort." A Dictionary of Ecology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MICHAEL ALLABY. "cohort." A Dictionary of Ecology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O14-cohort.html MICHAEL ALLABY. "cohort." A Dictionary of Ecology. 2004. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O14-cohort.html |
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1. A group of individuals of the same age. 2. In plant taxonomy, a little-used term meaning a group of related families. |
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MICHAEL ALLABY. "cohort." A Dictionary of Plant Sciences. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MICHAEL ALLABY. "cohort." A Dictionary of Plant Sciences. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O7-cohort.html MICHAEL ALLABY. "cohort." A Dictionary of Plant Sciences. 1998. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O7-cohort.html |
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1. A group of individuals of the same age. 2. In animal taxonomy, a group of orders. |
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MICHAEL ALLABY. "cohort." A Dictionary of Zoology. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MICHAEL ALLABY. "cohort." A Dictionary of Zoology. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O8-cohort.html MICHAEL ALLABY. "cohort." A Dictionary of Zoology. 1999. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O8-cohort.html |
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cohort n.a group of people banded together or treated as a group.
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"cohort." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "cohort." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-cohort.html "cohort." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-cohort.html |
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cohort Group of individuals or taxa of the same age.
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AILSA ALLABY and MICHAEL ALLABY. "cohort." A Dictionary of Earth Sciences. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. AILSA ALLABY and MICHAEL ALLABY. "cohort." A Dictionary of Earth Sciences. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O13-cohort.html AILSA ALLABY and MICHAEL ALLABY. "cohort." A Dictionary of Earth Sciences. 1999. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O13-cohort.html |
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•abort, apport, assort, athwart, aught, besought, bethought, bort, bought, brought, caught, cavort, comport, consort, contort, Cort, court, distraught, escort, exhort, export, extort, fort, fought, fraught, import, methought, misreport, mort, naught, nought, Oort, ought, outfought, port, Porte, purport, quart, rort, short, snort, sort, sought, sport, support, swart, taught, taut, thought, thwart, tort, transport, wart, wrought
•cohort • backcourt • Port Harcourt
•forecourt • onslaught • dreadnought
•Connacht • aeronaut • Argonaut
•juggernaut • cosmonaut • astronaut
•aquanaut • davenport • carport
•passport • airport
•Freeport, seaport
•Shreveport
•heliport, teleport
•Stockport • outport • Coalport
•spoilsport
•Newport, viewport
•hoverport
•forethought, malice aforethought
•afterthought • worrywart
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"cohort." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "cohort." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-cohort.html "cohort." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-cohort.html |
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