Social Mobility data

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.

See also

Glass, Hauser79, Yamaguchi87 for other examples of mobility data.

Examples

data(Mobility)
Mobility
#>               Father_Occupation
#> Son_Occupation UpNonMan LoNonMan UpManual LoManual Farm
#>       UpNonMan     1414      724      798      756  409
#>       LoNonMan      521      524      648      914  357
#>       UpManual      302      254      856      771  441
#>       LoManual      643      703     1676     3325 1611
#>       Farm           40       48      108      237 1832

# independence model
MASS::loglm(~Father_Occupation + Son_Occupation, data = Mobility)
#> Call:
#> MASS::loglm(formula = ~Father_Occupation + Son_Occupation, data = Mobility)
#> 
#> Statistics:
#>                       X^2 df P(> X^2)
#> Likelihood Ratio 6170.130 16        0
#> Pearson          7166.771 16        0

vcd::mosaic(Mobility, shade=TRUE, legend = FALSE)