Poverty measurements of elderly people (older than the Swiss legal retirement age) in Switzerland. The data are the (complete) subsample of participants of the canton Valais of the Vivre-Leben-Vivere (VLV) survey data.
data(poverty)A data frame with 576 observations on the following variables
Poorbinary response variable on whether the person is considered as poor or not. 0 = no and 1 = yes.
Cantonthe canton where the person lives. All individuals origin from the canton Wallis.
Genderwhether person is a male or a female.
AgeGroupto which age group the person belongs to.
Eduordered 3-category measurement on the persons education.
CivStatcivil status.
NChildnumber of children.
Workingwhether the person is still working (even though all persons are in the legal retirement age).
FirstJob5-category classification of the person's first job.
LastJob5-category classification of the person's last job.
Originwhether the person origins from Switzerland or a foreign country.
SocMobwhether and how the person has changed his social status over the life span.
RetirTimingtiming of the retirement relative to the legal retirement age.
ProfCar4-category classification of the professional
carrier. Possible are "full employment",
"missing / early retirement", "start and stop" and
"stop and restart". The classification was retrieved from a
longitudinal cluster analysis on the professional carriers in
Gabriel et. al. (2014).
Pension5-category classification of the pension plan. Number refer to the Swiss pension three-pillar system.
TimFirstChildtiming of first child relative to the average timing of the first child of the same age group.
Poverty is defined by a threshold of 2400 Swiss francs per person in
the household. Specifically, the poverty variable was retrieved
from a self-rated ordinal variable with nine categories on household
income and was adjusted by the OECD equivalence scales methodology to
account for the household size.
The variables Canton, Gender and AgeGroup
represent the stratification variables of the survey design.
The data include a significant number of missings, in particular for
Poor and RetirTiming. The authors are grateful to
Rainer Gabriel, Michel Oris and the Centre interfacultaire de
gerontologie et d'etudes des vulnerabilites (CIGEV) at the
University of Geneva for providing the prepared data set.
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Gabriel, R., M. Oris, M. Studer and M. Baeriswyl (2015). The Persistance of Social Stratification? Swiss Journal of Sociology, 41(3), 465--487.