d_occup: Occupation Data (complete orderings)

Description

The Occupation dataset (d_occup) came up from a survey conducted on graduates from the Technion-Insrael Institute of Tecnology. A sample of $N = 143$ graduates were asked to rank $K = 10$ professions according to the perceived prestige. The occupations are labeled as: 1 = faculty member, 2 = owner of a business, 3 = applied scientist, 4 = operations researcher, 5 = industrial engineer, 6 = manager, 7 = mechanical engineer, 8 = supervisor, 9 = technician and 10 = foreman. The dataset is composed of complete orderings.

Usage

data(d_occup)

Arguments

Format

Object of S3 class c("top_ordering","matrix") gathering a matrix of complete orderings with $N = 143$ rows and $K = 10$ columns. Each row lists the professions from the most-liked (Rank_1) to the least-liked (Rank_10) for a given graduate.

References

Cohen, A. and Mallows, C. L. (1983). Assessing goodness of fit of ranking models to data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series D (The Statistician), 32(4), pages 361--374, ISSN: 0039-0526.

Cohen, A. (1982). Analysis of large sets of ranking data. Communications in Statistics -- Theory and Methods, 11(3), pages 235--256.

Goldberg, A. I. (1976). The relevance of cosmopolitan/local orientations to professional values and behavior. Sociology of Work and Occupations, 3(3), pages 331--356.

Examples

Run this code

# NOT RUN {
data(d_occup)
head(d_occup)
# }