Mobility: Social Mobility data
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Mobility R Documentation
Social Mobility data
Description
Data on social mobility, recording the occupational category of fathers and
their sons.
Format
A 2-dimensional array resulting from cross-tabulating 2 variables
for 19912 observations. The variable names and their levels are:
No Name Levels
1 Son's_Occupation "UpNonMan", "LoNonMan", "UpManual", "LoManual", "Farm"
2 Father's_Occupation "UpNonMan", "LoNonMan", "UpManual", "LoManual", "Farm"
Source
Falguerolles, A. de and Mathieu, J. R. (1988). Proceedings of
COMPSTAT 88, Copenhagen, Denmark, Springer-Verlag.
% FeathermanHauser:78
Featherman, D. L. and Hauser, R. M. Occupations and social mobility in the
United States. Sociological Microjournal, 12, Fiche 62. Copenhagen:
Sociological Institute.
See Also
Glass, Hauser79,
Yamaguchi87 for other examples of mobility data.
Examples
data(Mobility)
Mobility
# independence model
MASS::loglm(~Father_Occupation + Son_Occupation, data = Mobility)
vcd::mosaic(Mobility, shade=TRUE, legend = FALSE)
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Social Mobility data
Description
Data on social mobility, recording the occupational category of fathers and their sons.
Format
A 2-dimensional array resulting from cross-tabulating 2 variables for 19912 observations. The variable names and their levels are:
| No | Name | Levels |
| 1 | Son's_Occupation | "UpNonMan", "LoNonMan", "UpManual", "LoManual", "Farm" |
| 2 | Father's_Occupation | "UpNonMan", "LoNonMan", "UpManual", "LoManual", "Farm" |
Source
Falguerolles, A. de and Mathieu, J. R. (1988). Proceedings of COMPSTAT 88, Copenhagen, Denmark, Springer-Verlag.
% FeathermanHauser:78
Featherman, D. L. and Hauser, R. M. Occupations and social mobility in the United States. Sociological Microjournal, 12, Fiche 62. Copenhagen: Sociological Institute.
See Also
Glass, Hauser79,
Yamaguchi87 for other examples of mobility data.
Examples
data(Mobility)
Mobility
# independence model
MASS::loglm(~Father_Occupation + Son_Occupation, data = Mobility)
vcd::mosaic(Mobility, shade=TRUE, legend = FALSE)
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