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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.)
statpoptotaldata.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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