Labor force longitudinal categorical data (Table 1)

Five-year employment-status sequences reconstructed from Table 1 in the labor-force example used in Xie and Zimmerman score/Wald antedependence testing work. Category coding is 1 = employed, 2 = unemployed.

Usage

labor_force_cat

Format

A list with five components:

y

integer matrix of dimension N by 5 containing expanded subject-level sequences

counts

data frame with columns Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4, Y5, Count

n_categories

number of categories (2)

time

integer vector of calendar years (1967:1971)

status_labels

character vector c("employed", "unemployed")

Source

Table 1 (labor-force example) from: Xie, Y. and Zimmerman, D. L. (2013). Score and Wald tests for antedependence in categorical longitudinal data.