bfspell {TraMineR}

Example data set: First 20 biofam sequences in SPELL form

Description

First 20 sequences of the biofam data set in SPELL form. The data serve to illustrate the use of seqformat for converting SPELL data into STS (horizontal) form.

Usage

data(bfspell)

Format

A data set with two data frames: bfspell20 with one row per spell and bfpdata20 with one row per id. The bfspell20 data frame contains the spell data themselves (4 variables id, begin, end, states) and bfpdata20 the year when aged 15 (2 variables id, when15).

Details

The states are coded with the following short labels

P = "Parent"
L = "Left"
M = "Married"
LM = "Left+Marr"
C = "Child"
LC = "Left+Child"
LMC = "Left+Marr+Child"
D = "Divorced"

The data is a SPELL representation of biofam[1:20,10:25], corresponding to 20 family life sequences between ages 15 and 30.

See Also

biofam