Prestige {car}R Documentation

Prestige of Canadian Occupations

Description

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

Usage

Prestige

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.

Source

Canada (1971) Census of Canada. Vol. 3, Part 6. Statistics Canada [pp. 19-1–19-21].

Personal communication from B. Blishen, W. Carroll, and C. Moore, Departments of Sociology, York University and University of Victoria.

References

Fox, J. (1997) Applied Regression, Linear Models, and Related Methods. Sage.


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