unempMultiSpell: Multiple Spell employment data

In discSurv: Discrete Time Survival Analysis

Multiple Spell employment data

Description

Subsample of 1000 persons from the national longitudinal survey of youth 1979 data. Included covariates are age, children, ethnicity, marital status and sex. The bivariate responses current state (spell) and discrete time interval (year) are the last two columns.

Usage

data(unempMultiSpell)

Details

• Column "id" is defined as identification number for each person.

• Column "age" represents the time-varying age of each person in years.

• Column "child" consists of values

  • 0 - No children

  • 1 - Individual has child/children

• Column "ethnicity" consists of values

  • 1 - Hispanic

  • 2 - Black

  • 3 - Other

• Column "marriage" consists of values

  • 1 - Never Married

  • 2 - Currently married

  • 3 - Other/Divorced

• Column "sex" consists of values

  • 1 - Male

  • 2 - Female

• Column "spell" represents the time-varying employment status of each person. Possible values are

  • 1 - Employed

  • 2 - Unemployed

  • 3 - Out of labor force

  • 4 - In active forces

  • 0 - Censored

• Column "year" represents the discrete time intervals in years.

Author(s)

David Koehler [e-mail]

Source

National Longitudinal Survey of Youth

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