rankDat {sampleVADIR}

Rank to pay grade data

Description

Serves as a key for relating certain military rank designations with pay grades. Used in the sampleVADIR function for stratifying based on pay grade rather than rank.

Usage

rankDat

Format

A data frame with six variables that links pay grades to military ranks within each military branch. PayGrade indicates the pay grade associated with a specific job title (Title) within a given Branch of the military. Title designates the job title, where Initials is the shorthand for each title (this is how the RANK_CD variable is coded in the VADIR dataset). Branch designates the military branch, where "N" stands for Navy, "A" stands for Army, "M" stands for Marines, and "F" stands for Air Force. PayCat4 represents one coding scheme that categorizes different pay grades into four categories, where "E" stands for enlisted, "NCO" stands for non-commissioned officer, "W" stands for warrant officer, and "O" stands for commissioned officer. PayCat7 represents an alternative categorization that breaks pay grades into seven categories, wherein "SNCO" stands for senior non-commissioned officer, "FGO" stands for field grade officer, "CGO" stands for company grade officer, and "GO" stands for general officer.

Details

The way these data are used in the sampleVADIR function is by indexing the values of the RANK_CD variable of the VADIR dataset against the Initials variable in the present dataset, and then the RANK_CD value is replaced with the associated value in either the PayCat4 or PayCat7 variable depending on what is specified in the sampleVADIR function. The purpose of this is to make the RANK_CD variable more amenable to stratification, given the difficultly of stratifying across values of a categorical variable with so many unique values.