Age Cohorts Are Important to Understand Because:
Age differences are one way cohorts differ from another- the concept of cohort is useful for distinguishing age changes from age differences. As the workforce ages each cohort becomes more like the generation that preceded it. Age Period Cohort Effect Analysis Columbia Public Health Boys collecting old tires for rubber during WWII. . Age period and cohort APC effects represent three distinct ways in which health can change over time and researchers across the social and medical sciences have long been interested in how to differentiate and understand these changes. Age cohorts give researchers a tool to analyze changes in views over time. In particular APC analysis discerns three types of time varying phenomena. Cohort studies can look at many different aspects of. Age effects period effects and cohort effects. Period Age and Cohort Effects v ABSTRACT Paper 14 in this series reported analyses that differentiated among peri...