GSS {FactorCopula}

The 1994 General Social Survey

Description

Hoff (2007) analysed seven demographic variables of 464 male respondents to the 1994 General Social Survey. Of these seven, two were continuous (income and age of the respondents), three were ordinal with 5 categories (highest degree of the survey respondent, income and highest degree of respondent's parents), and two were count variables (number of children of the survey respondent and respondent's parents).

Usage

data(GSS)

Format

A data frame with 464 observations on the following 7 variables:

INCOME

Income of the respondent in 1000s of dollars, binned into 21 ordered categories.

DEGREE

Highest degree ever obtained (0:None, 1:HS, 2:Associates, 3:Bachelors, 4:Graduate).

CHILDREN

Number of children of the survey respondent.

PINCOME

Financial status of respondent's parents when respondent was 16 (on a 5-point scale).

PDEGREE

Highest degree of the survey respondent's parents (0:None, 1:HS, 2:Associates, 3:Bachelors, 4:Graduate).

PCHILDREN

Number of children of the survey respondent's parents - 1.

AGE

Age of the respondents in years.

Source

Hoff, P. D. (2007). Extending the rank likelihood for semiparametric copula estimation. The Annals of Applied Statistics, 1, 265–283.