R: Example data set: Transition from school to work

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## Example data set: Transition from school to work

### Description

The data comes from a study by McVicar and Anyadike-Danes on transition from school to work. The data consist of static background characteristics and a time series sequence of 72 monthly labour market activities for each of 712 individuals in a cohort survey. The individuals were followed up from July 1993 to June 1999. The monthly states are recorded in columns 15 (`Jul.93`) to 86 (`Jun.99`).

States are:

`employment` | (EM)
`FE` | further education (FE)
`HE` | higher education (HE)
`joblessness` | (JL)
`school` | (SC)
`training` | (TR)

The data set contains also ids (`id`) and sample weights (`weight`) as well as the following binary covariates:
`male`
`catholic`
`Belfast`, `N.Eastern`, `Southern`, `S.Eastern`, `Western` (location of school, one of five Education and Library Board areas in Northern Ireland)
`Grammar` (type of secondary education, 1=grammar school)
`funemp` (father's employment status at time of survey, 1=father unemployed)
`gcse5eq` (qualifications gained by the end of compulsory education, 1=5+ GCSEs at grades A-C, or equivalent)
`fmpr` (SOC code of father's current or most recent job, 1=SOC1 (professional, managerial or related))
`livboth` (living arrangements at time of first sweep of survey (June 1995), 1=living with both parents)

### Usage

    data(mvad)

### Format

A data frame containing 712 rows, 72 state variables, 1 id variable and 13 covariates.

### Source

McVicar and Anyadike-Danes (2002)

### References

McVicar, Duncan and Anyadike-Danes, Michael (2002). Predicting Successful and Unsuccessful Transitions from School to Work by Using Sequence Methods, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), 165, 2, pp. 317–334.

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