SocialPosition (version 1.0.1)

collapse_PCS2003_4l: The collapsing of the French Professions et Categories Socioprofessionnelles (PCS 2003) from 4 levels

Description

This function collapses the French Professions et Categories Socioprofessionnelles (PCS 2003) from 4 levels (niveau 4) into 1 level, 2 levels and 3 levels (niveaux 1, 2 and 3)

Usage

collapse_PCS2003_4l(PCS2003_4l, data)

Arguments

PCS2003_4l

The name of the variable containing the French PCS 2003 coded on 4 levels (i.e. 3 digits followed by 1 letter, such as 226a)

data

The name of the dataset

References

Documentation on the French Professions et Categories Socioprofessionnelles (PCS) 2003 can be found on the French National Statistic Agency, the INSEE (in French only):

http://insee.fr/fr/methodes/default.asp?page=nomenclatures/pcs2003/pcs2003.htm

Examples

#load the data
data(data_PCS2003_4l)

#visualize the data
str(data_PCS2003_4l)
head(data_PCS2003_4l)

#check the variable PCS2003_4l needed for the conversion
table(data_PCS2003_4l$codes_4_level)

#Then, you can run the function:
data_PCS2003_4l <- collapse_PCS2003_4l(
				   PCS2003_4l=data_PCS2003_4l$codes_4_level,
				   data=data_PCS2003_4l)

#Three variables corresponding each to one different level of collapsing were created:
names(data_PCS2003_4l)
table(data_PCS2003_4l$PCS2003_3l) #3 level
table(data_PCS2003_4l$PCS2003_2l) #2 level
table(data_PCS2003_4l$PCS2003_1l) #1 level