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Prestige: Prestige of Canadian Occupations

Description

The Prestige data frame has 102 rows and 6 columns. The observations are occupations.

Usage

Prestige

Arguments

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

education

Average education of occupational incumbents, years, in 1971.

income

Average income of incumbents, dollars, in 1971.

women

Percentage of incumbents who are women.

prestige

Pineo-Porter prestige score for occupation, from a social survey conducted in the mid-1960s.

census

Canadian Census occupational code.

type

Type of occupation. A factor with levels (note: out of order): bc, Blue Collar; prof, Professional, Managerial, and Technical; wc, White Collar.

References

Fox, J. (2008) Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models, Second Edition. Sage.

Fox, J. and Weisberg, S. (2011) An R Companion to Applied Regression, Second Edition, Sage.