certify {rake}R Documentation

1994 Survey of ASA Membership Certification Data

Description

In 1994, the American Statistical Association member survey included questions regarding a proposed certification program. This data set contains two objects:

certify
the 5001 survey responses for questions related to the certification program.
statpoptotal
population characteristics of the ASA of 1994, provided for Rake analysis.

Usage

data(certify)

Format

certify
data.frame with 11 columns:
CERTIFY
Should the ASA develop some form of certification?
APPROVE
Would you approve of a certification program similar to that described in the July 1993 issue of Amstat News?
SPECCERT
Should there be specific certification programs for statistics subdisciplines?
WOULDYOU
If the ASA developed a certification program, would you attempt to become certified?
SUBDISC
Major subdiscipline: BA = Bayesian, BE = business & economic, BI = biometrics, BP = biopharmaceutical, CM = computing, EN = environment, EP = epidemiology, GV = government, MR = marketing, PE = physical & engineering sciences, QP = quality & productivity, SE = statistical education, SG = statistical graphics, SP = sports, SR = survey research, SS = social statistics, TH = teaching statistics in health sciences, O = other.
COLLEGE
Highest collegiate degree: B = BS or BA, M = MS, N = none, P = Ph.D., O = other.
EMPLOY
Employment status: E = employed, I = in school, R = retired, S = self-employed, U = unemployed, O = other.
WORKENV
Primary work environment: A = academia, G = government, I = Industry, O = other.
WORKACT
Primary work activity: C = consultant, E = educator, P = practitioner, R = researcher, S = student, O = other.
YEARSMEM
For how many years have you been a member of the ASA?
(For the first five columns, the response is coded: 0 = no response, 1 = yes, 2 = possibly, 3 = no opinion, 4 = unlikely, 5 = no. Missing values for other questions are coded as blanks.)
statpoptotal
data.frame with 2 columns:
name
label for population characteristic. An element from the "WORKENV" or "COLLEGE" column of certify, but with the following meanings: A = Academia, I = Industry, O = All others, P = Ph.D., N = All others.
weight
number of members of the 1994 ASA with the characteristic (i.e. the population weights.)

Note

This data set is provided as an example for using the rake package. It exhibits categorical data for which the sample does not match the population, and thus is a suitable target for re-weighting using Raking.

Source

http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/asacert/certsurvey

References

Sharon L. Lohr. Sampling: Design and Analysis, p. 439. Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove, CA, 1999.


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