On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the JobSatisfaction data set which pertains to Job Satisfaction Data. The JobSatisfaction data set is found in the vcd R package. You can load the JobSatisfaction data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("JobSatisfaction"). This will load the data into a variable called JobSatisfaction. If R says the JobSatisfaction data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("vcd") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the JobSatisfaction R data set. The size of this file is about 222 bytes.

Job Satisfaction Data

Description

Data from Petersen (1968) about the job satisfaction of 715 blue collar workers, selected from Danish Industry in 1968.

Usage

data("JobSatisfaction")

Format

A data frame with 8 observations and 4 variables.

Freq

frequency.

management

factor indicating quality of management (bad, good).

supervisor

factor indicating supervisor's job satisfaction (low, high).

own

factor indicating worker's own job satisfaction (low, high).

Source

E. B. Andersen (1991), The Statistical Analysis of Categorical Data, Table 5.4.

References

E. B. Andersen (1991), The Statistical Analysis of Categorical Data. 2nd edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

E. Petersen (1968), Job Satisfaction in Denmark. (In Danish). Mentalhygiejnisk Forlag, Copenhagen.

Examples

data("JobSatisfaction")
structable(~ ., data = JobSatisfaction)mantelhaen.test(xtabs(Freq ~ own + supervisor + management,
                      data = JobSatisfaction))

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