Paper 'Understanding Trends in the Transition to Adulthood: An Application of Competing Trajectories Analysis' presented by Jarl Mooyaart at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, 27-29 April 2017, Chicago, United States. Session: 246 Methodological Innovations in Family Demography: Analytic Approaches Session Group: Methodological Innovations in Family Demography Authors: Matthias Studer1, Aart C. Liefbroer2 and Jarl Mooyaart2, (1)NCCR LIVES and IDEMO University of Geneva, Switzerland, (2)Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), Netherlands