bollen1989c {MIIVsem}

Subjective class data

Description

The following data is from Bollen (1989) using data from Kluegel et al. (1977). These data include measures of actual income (inc) and occupational prestige (occ), measures of respondents' subjective assessments of income (subinc), occupational prestige (subocc), and overall SES status (subgen).

Usage

bollen1989c

Format

A data frame with 432 rows and 5 variables

Details

• occ. actual occupational prestige

• inc. actual income

• subocc. respondents' subjective assessments of prestige

• subinc. respondents' subjective assessments of income

• subgen. respondents' subjective assessments of SES status

References

Bollen, K. A. 1989. Structural Equations with Latent Variables. New York: Wiley

Kluegel, J. R., Singleton, R., & Starnes, C. E. (1977). Subjective Class Identification: A Multiple Indicator Approach. American Sociological Review, 42(4), 599–611.

Examples

## Not run: 
 model <-    '
	subinc  ~ inc + subocc
   subocc  ~ occ + subinc
   subgen  ~ subinc + subocc
	subinc ~~ subocc + subgen
   subocc ~~ subgen
	inc    ~~ occ
 '

## End(Not run)