1. German Life History Survey 201 respondents

2. The German life history survey (GLHS) Retrospective survey about life histories of men and women born in 1929-31, 1939-41, and 1949- 51 (3 cohorts) Data collected in 1981-1983 Description: Brückner and Mayer (1998). In: Giele and Elder ‘Methods of life course research’, Sage. Blossfeld and Rohwer (1995): subsample of 201 respondents with total of 600 employment spells

3. The GLS subsample Overall average rate of job change: –Number of job episodes: 600 –Number of job changes: 458 (closed intervals) –Total time spent in jobs: 40781 months Average per episode: 67.97 months (B&R, p. 86) –Overall average rate of job change: 458/40781 = 0.01123 per month (B&R, p. 86)

4. Retrospective design Mark Clements, Cancer Council New South Wales, Australia, Multistate Lung Cancer Projection In: 2002\MD\p|Cancer

5. German life history study, Sample data (Blossfeld and Rohwer, 1995) Event file 1 ID Identif. Number 2 NOJ Serial number of the job 3 TS Starting time of job 4 ET Ending time of job 5 SEX (1 =men, 2 = women) 6 TI Date of interview 7 TB Date of birth 8 T1 Date of entry into labor market 9 TM Date of marriage (0 if no marriage) 10 PRES Prestige score of job i 11 PRESN Prestige score of job i+1 12 EDU Highest educational attainment

7. Number of jobs held, by sex (201 respondents)

8. Duration of jobs (B&R, 95, p. 86) Duration = endjcm - startcjm (or interview) + 1

9. Employment histories

12. Employment episodes

14. Position of employment career at selected ages ORIGIN STATE : NOJOB DESTINATION Age Occupancy Exposure Entries NOJOB JOB Censored 0 201 201.00 201 0 0 0 12 201 201.00 0 0 0 0 13 201 199.17 0 0 6 0 14 195 180.58 0 0 24 0 15 173 167.17 0 0 12 0 20 55 62.83 0 0 16 0 25 58 62.00 0 0 3 0 30 61 57.58 0 0 3 6 31 54 51.33 0 0 5 9 35 46 43.92 0 0 4 0 40 41 36.25 0 0 4 5 50 22 17.92 0 0 1 10 51 13 8.83 0 0 0 8 52 5 2.00 0 0 0 5 53 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 TOTAL 4852 4934.00 201 0 323 59 MAGE 0.00 21.61 42.38 DISTRIB 0.00 84.55

15. Position of employment career at selected ages ORIGIN STATE : JOB DESTINATION Age Occupancy Exposure Entries NOJOB JOB Censored 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 12 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 13 0 1.83 0 0 1 0 14 6 20.42 0 2 2 0 15 28 33.83 0 3 4 0 20 146 138.17 0 24 17 0 25 143 139.00 0 11 10 0 30 138 127.75 0 2 14 19 31 120 108.83 0 5 5 18 35 84 86.08 0 1 4 0 40 88 83.17 0 1 3 17 50 51 37.25 0 2 0 26 51 24 15.67 0 0 0 17 52 7 3.33 0 0 0 7 53 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 TOTAL 3380 3396.83 0 181 277 142 MAGE 25.02 27.11 41.07 DISTRIB 30.17 46.17

16. State occupancies Table 8.4 State occupancies at selected ages Observation starts at birth Age NOJOB JOB In Obs Censored 0 201 0 201 0 12 201 0 201 0 13 201 0 201 0 14 195 6 201 0 15 173 28 201 0 20 55 146 201 0 25 58 143 201 0 30 61 138 199 2 35 46 84 130 71 40 41 88 129 72 50 22 51 73 128 51 13 24 37 164 52 5 7 12 189 53 0 0 0 201

17. State occupancy at censoring Table 8.5 State occupancies at censoring by age at censoring, selected ages Observation starts at birth Age Total NOJOB JOB 29 2 0 2 30 25 6 19 31 27 9 18 32 17 3 14 39 1 0 1 40 22 5 17 41 17 5 12 42 15 7 8 49 2 1 1 50 36 10 26 51 25 8 17 52 12 5 7 Total 201 59 142 MAGE 42.38 41.07 MED 42.00 41.00 % 100.00 29.35 70.65

18. Table 8.6 Exposure, by age Observation starts at birth TOTAL IN OBS YRS_OBS n.y.obs NOJOB JOB Censored 0 201.00 0.00 201.00 0.00 201.00 0.00 0.00 12 201.00 201.00 201.00 0.00 201.00 0.00 0.00 13 201.00 201.00 201.00 0.00 199.17 1.83 0.00 14 201.00 201.00 201.00 0.00 180.58 20.42 0.00 15 201.00 201.00 201.00 0.00 167.17 33.83 0.00 20 201.00 201.00 201.00 0.00 62.83 138.17 0.00 25 201.00 201.00 201.00 0.00 62.00 139.00 0.00 30 201.00 199.00 185.33 0.00 57.58 127.75 15.67 35 201.00 130.00 130.00 0.00 43.92 86.08 71.00 40 201.00 129.00 119.42 0.00 36.25 83.17 81.58 50 201.00 73.00 55.17 0.00 17.92 37.25 145.83 51 201.00 37.00 24.50 0.00 8.83 15.67 176.50 52 201.00 12.00 5.33 0.00 2.00 3.33 195.67 53 201.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 201.00 Total 11256.00 8232.00 8330.83 0.00 4934.00 3396.83 2925.17

19. State occupancies 201 respondents Censored

20. Exposures and transitions Open episodes 142 Total episodes Closed episodes 458 Years in observation

21. Transition rates Exit from job episode (see also SPSS)