collapse_PCS2003_2l: The collapsing of the French Professions et Categories...

In SocialPosition: Social Position Indicators Construction Toolbox

Description

This function collapses the French Professions et Categories Socioprofessionnelles (PCS 2003) from 2 levels (niveau 2) into 1 level (niveau 1)

Usage

collapse_PCS2003_2l(PCS2003_2l, data)

Arguments

PCS2003_2l	The name of the variable containing the French PCS 2003 coded on 2 levels
data	The name of the dataset

Author(s)

Julie Falcon (University of Lausanne)

References

Documentation on the French Professions et Categories Socioprofessionnelles (PCS) 2003 can be found on the French National Statistic Agency, the INSEE (in French only):

http://insee.fr/fr/methodes/default.asp?page=nomenclatures/pcs2003/pcs2003.htm

Examples

#load the data
data(data_PCS2003_2l)

#visualize the data
str(data_PCS2003_2l)
head(data_PCS2003_2l)

#check the variable PCS2003_2l needed for the conversion
table(data_PCS2003_2l$codes_2_level)

#Then, you can run the function:
data_PCS2003_2l <- collapse_PCS2003_2l(
				   PCS2003_2l=data_PCS2003_2l$codes_2_level,
				   data=data_PCS2003_2l)

#The corresponding variable was created:
names(data_PCS2003_2l)
table(data_PCS2003_2l$PCS2003_1l)

SocialPosition documentation built on May 2, 2019, 9:25 a.m.