biofam

The <em>biofam</em> data set was constructed by M�ller et al. (2007)
from the data of the retrospective biographical survey carried out by the Swiss Household Panel in 2002. In includes only individuals who were at least 30 years old at the time of the survey for whom we consider sequences of family life states between ages 15 and 30. The <em>biofam</em> data set describes thus family life courses of 2000 individuals born between 1909 and 1972.

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This package is a toolbox for sequence manipulation, description, rendering and more generally sequence data mining in the field of social sciences. Though it is primarily intended for analyzing state or event sequences that describe life courses such as family formation histories or professional careers its features apply indeed also to many other kinds of categorical sequence data. It accepts as input many different sequence representations and provides tools for translating sequences from one format to another. It offers several statistical functions for describing and rendering sequences, for computing distances between sequences with different metrics among which optimal matching, the longest common prefix and the longest common subsequence, and simple functions for extracting the most frequent subsequences and identifying the most discriminating ones among them.

Alexis Gabadinho

TraMineR

Sequences and trajectories mining for social scientists

biofam function

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A data frame containing 2000 rows and 16 variables.

biofam: Example data set: Family life states from the Swiss Household Panel retrospective biographical survey

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