R: Social Mobility data

Mobility {vcdExtra} | R Documentation

## Social Mobility data

### Description

Data on social mobility, recording the occupational category of fathers and their sons.

### Usage

    data(Mobility)

### Format

A 2-dimensional array resulting from cross-tabulating 2 variables for 19912 observations. The variable names and their levels are:

No | Name | Levels
1 | `Son's_Occupation}\tab \code{"UpNonMan", "LoNonMan", "UpManual", "LoManual", "Farm"}\cr 2\tab \code{Father's_Occupation` | `"UpNonMan", "LoNonMan", "UpManual", "LoManual", "Farm"`

### Source

Falguerolles, A. de and Mathieu, J. R. (1988). Proceedings of COMPSTAT 88, Copenhagen, Denmark, Springer-Verlag.

Featherman, D. L. and Hauser, R. M. Occupations and social mobility in the United States. Sociological Microjournal, 12, Fiche 62. Copenhagen: Sociological Institute.

### Examples

    data(Mobility)

    # example goes here

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