Example using seqlogit

This document shows some output of an example using the seqlogit package. It is meant to clarify some of the tricks used in this example. It is not intended to explain the methodology, this is done in (Buis 2008b) and (Buis 2008a), nor is it intended to give details of the syntax, this is done in the help files of seqlogit and seqlogit postestimation. If you got this document through installing the ancillary files of the seqlogit package from ssc you should also have a do-file called seqlogit example.do and a Stata data file called gss.dta. These two file reproduce the example shown here. The example is based on American data, from the General Social Survey, using the sub-samples of white and African American males. I will assume that children in the US face the educational system as represented in figure 1. When they have not finished high school they can decide to leave or finish high school. If they finish high school they can leave, go to junior college or get a bachelor degree. If they get a bachelor degree they can go to graduate school. Notice that it is assumed that students can not go from junior college to a four year college. With this assumption, there is for each level of education only one way through which it could have been achieved and so knowing the highest achieved level of education is enough to reconstruct the entire educational career of the individual.