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Prestige of Canadian Occupations
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Description
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The ``Prestige`` data frame has 102 rows and 6 columns. The observations
are occupations.

Usage
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::

    Prestige

Format
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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
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Canada (1971) *Census of Canada*. Vol. 3, Part 6. Statistics Canada [pp.
19-1â€“19-21].

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

References
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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.
