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Verlaufsanalyse

English translation: trend analysis

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German term or phrase:	Verlaufsanalyse
English translation:	trend analysis
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18:51 Nov 3, 2009

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Science - Mathematics & Statistics / Higher Education Statistics

German term or phrase: Verlaufsanalyse

Title of a report:

"Retrospective Verlaufsanalyse von Karriereverläufen in der Mathematik und ausgewählten Naturwissenschaften."

See last year's report here (p 15 onwards):
http://www.gwk-bonn.de/fileadmin/Papers/GWK-Heft-03-Chanceng...

Further context example:

.... Die Bestandsdaten über den Frauenanteil an Professuren sowie am hauptberuflichen wissenschaftlichen Personal sind – abgesetzt – in die graphischen Darstellungen mit aufgenommen. Als (End-)Punkte einer retrospektiven erlaufsanalyse können sie nicht genutzt werden: Unter den Professorinnen und Professoren sind Personen im Alter von Mitte 30 bis Ende 60 vertreten.

Thanks in advance for your knowledgeable suggestions, found a number of possible translations online, but nothing that I can back up.

Stephen

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analysis of (career) trends

Explanation:
I may be wrong, but "Verlaufsanalyse von Karriereverläufen" sounds like bad writing to me.

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philgoddard
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Thanks all for the input. I was unable to find any usage for "progress analysis", so I went with "Retrospective Trend Analysis of Career Paths"
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analysis of (career) trends

philgoddard

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Progress Analysis of career history

Nicole Backhaus

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analysis of (career) trends

Explanation:
I may be wrong, but "Verlaufsanalyse von Karriereverläufen" sounds like bad writing to me.

philgoddard
United States
Local time: 18:37
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Thanks all for the input. I was unable to find any usage for "progress analysis", so I went with "Retrospective Trend Analysis of Career Paths"

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Asker: Indeed, or perhaps "Trend analysis of career progression/paths". My gut instinct said "trend analysis" too. Just found this page http://www.peridata.org/Suchen_d.htm, which has Trendanalyse and Verlaufsanalyse linking to the same page, which supports the idea that this a synonym as you suggest. Thanks.