vcd (version 0.1-3.5)

Employment: Employment Status

Description

Data from a 1974 Danish study given by Anderson (1991) on the employees who had been laid off. The workers are classified by their employment status on 1975-01-01, the cause of their layoff and the length of employment before they were laid off.

Usage

data(Employment)

format

A 3-dimensional array resulting from cross-tabulating variables for 1314 employees. The variables and their levels are as follows:

rll{ No Name Levels 1 EmploymentStatus NewJob, Unemployed 2 EmploymentLength <1mo, 1-3mo,="" 3-12mo,="" 1-2yr,="" 2-5yr,="">5Yr 3 LayoffCause Closure, Replaced }

source

Michael Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data, p. 126-129.

References

E. B. Anderson (1991), Statistical Analysis of Categorical Data. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

Examples

data(Employment)

## Employment Status ##
mosaicplot(Employment, shade = TRUE,
           margin = ~ LayoffCause*EmploymentLength + EmploymentStatus,
	   main = "Layoff*EmployLength + EmployStatus")


mosaicplot(Employment, shade = TRUE,
           margin = ~ LayoffCause*EmploymentLength + LayoffCause*EmploymentStatus,
	   main = "Layoff*EmployLength + Layoff*EmployStatus")

par(mfrow=c(1,2))

## Closure ##
mosaicplot(Employment[,,1], shade = TRUE, main = "Layoff: Closure")

## Replaced ##
mosaicplot(Employment[,,2], shade = TRUE, main = "Layoff : Replaced")

par(mfrow=c(1,1))