Mobility {vcdExtra}

Social Mobility data

Description

Data on social mobility, recording the occupational category of fathers and their sons.

Usage

data(Mobility)

Format

A 2-dimensional array resulting from cross-tabulating 2 variables for 19912 observations. The variable names and their levels are:

No	Name	Levels
1	Son's_Occupation}\tab \code{"UpNonMan", "LoNonMan", "UpManual", "LoManual", "Farm"}\cr 2\tab \code{Father's_Occupation	"UpNonMan", "LoNonMan", "UpManual", "LoManual", "Farm"

Source

Falguerolles, A. de and Mathieu, J. R. (1988). Proceedings of COMPSTAT 88, Copenhagen, Denmark, Springer-Verlag.

Featherman, D. L. and Hauser, R. M. Occupations and social mobility in the United States. Sociological Microjournal, 12, Fiche 62. Copenhagen: Sociological Institute.

See Also

Glass, Hauser79, Yamaguchi87 for other examples of mobility data.

Examples

data(Mobility)
Mobility

# independence model
MASS::loglm(~Father_Occupation + Son_Occupation, data = Mobility)

vcd::mosaic(Mobility, shade=TRUE, legend = FALSE)