R: Prestige of Canadian Occupations

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## Prestige of Canadian Occupations

### Description

The `Prestige` data frame has 102 rows and 6 columns. The observations are occupations.

### Usage

    Prestige

### Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

education

  Average education of occupational incumbents, years, in 1971.

income

  Average income of incumbents, dollars, in 1971.

women

  Percentage of incumbents who are women.

prestige

  Pineo-Porter prestige score for occupation, from a social survey conducted in the mid-1960s.

census

  Canadian Census occupational code.

type

  Type of occupation. A factor with levels (note: out of order): `bc`, Blue Collar; `prof`, Professional, Managerial, and Technical; `wc`, White Collar.

### Source

Canada (1971) Census of Canada. Vol. 3, Part 6. Statistics Canada [pp. 19-1–19-21].

Personal communication from B. Blishen, W. Carroll, and C. Moore, Departments of Sociology, York University and University of Victoria.

### 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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