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Mobility

Social Mobility data


Description

Data on social mobility, recording the occupational category of fathers and their sons.

Usage

data(Mobility)

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}\tab \code{"UpNonMan", "LoNonMan", "UpManual", "LoManual", "Farm"}\cr 2\tab \code{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.

Featherman, D. L. and Hauser, R. M. Occupations and social mobility in the United States. Sociological Microjournal, 12, Fiche 62. Copenhagen: Sociological Institute.

Examples

data(Mobility)

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vcdExtra

'vcd' Extensions and Additions

v0.7-5
GPL (>= 2)
Authors
Michael Friendly [aut, cre], Heather Turner [ctb], Achim Zeileis [ctb], Duncan Murdoch [ctb], David Firth [ctb]
Initial release
2021-01-22

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