R: Duncan's Occupational Prestige Data

Duncan {car} | R Documentation

## 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.

### Usage

    Duncan

### 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.

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