Duncan: Duncan's Occupational Prestige Data
Description
The Duncan
data frame has 45 rows and 4 columns.
Data on the prestige and other characteristics of 45 U. S. occupations in 1950.
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
- type
- Type of occupation.
A factor with the following levels:
prof
, professional and managerial;
wc
, white-collar;
bc
, blue-collar.
- income
-
Percent of males in occupation earning $3500 or more in 1950.
- education
-
Percent of males in occupation in 1950 who were high-school graduates.
- prestige
-
Percent of raters in NORC study rating occupation as excellent or good in prestige.
Source
Duncan, O. D. (1961)
A socioeconomic index for all occupations.
In Reiss, A. J., Jr. (Ed.)
Occupations and Social Status. Free Press
[Table VI-1].References
Fox, J. (2008)
Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models,
Second Edition. Sage.
Fox, J. and Weisberg, S. (2011)
An R Companion to Applied Regression, Second Edition, Sage.