Event history data constitute a valuable source to analyze life courses, although the reliance of such data on autobiographical memory raises many concerns over their reliability. In this paper, we use Swedish survey data to investigate bias in retrospective reports of employment biographies, applying a novel model-based latent Markov method. A descriptive comparison of the biographies as recon...

history. The biographies vary in length from short paragraphs to several pages, and wherever possible they tell us about a person's hobbies as well as his professional interests. Perhaps one should say that too little attention is occasionally paid to the latter and that the compilers are somewhat idiosyncratic in their treatment of personal bibliographies. But in general the job is very neatly...

1 Initial situation When you search the web nowadays for broad information of a specific topic you often have to visit several pages and then combine the information found there to have it in a usable form. The examples used in this project are biographies of impressionist artists. If you want extensive information about a specific artist you probably won’t find it on one single page. So the ai...