marriage_dataset {bayesCureRateModel}

Marriage data

Description

The variable of interest (time) corresponds to the duration (in years) of first marriage for 1500 individuals. The available covariates are:

age

age of respondent (in years) at the time of fist marriage.

kids

factor: whether there were kids during the first marriage (1) or not (0).

race

race of respondent decoded as: black (1), hispanic (2) and non-black/non-hispanic (4).

Among the 1500 observations, there are 1018 censoring times (censoring = 0) and 482 divorces (censoring = 1). Source: National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97).

Usage

data(marriage_dataset)

Format

Time-to-event data.

References

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 cohort, 1997-2022 (rounds 1-20). Produced and distributed by the Center for Human Resource Research (CHRR), The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH: 2023.