General Social Survey
It’s a long-running US survey conducted by the independent research organization NORC at the University of Chicago. The survey has thousands of questions, so in gss_cat Hadley selected a handful that will illustrate some common challenges you’ll encounter when working with factors.
## # A tibble: 21,483 × 9
## year marital age race rincome partyid relig denom tvhours
## <int> <fct> <int> <fct> <fct> <fct> <fct> <fct> <int>
## 1 2000 Never married 26 White $8000 to 9999 Ind,near … Prot… Sout… 12
## 2 2000 Divorced 48 White $8000 to 9999 Not str r… Prot… Bapt… NA
## 3 2000 Widowed 67 White Not applicable Independe… Prot… No d… 2
## 4 2000 Never married 39 White Not applicable Ind,near … Orth… Not … 4
## 5 2000 Divorced 25 White Not applicable Not str d… None Not … 1
## 6 2000 Married 25 White $20000 - 24999 Strong de… Prot… Sout… NA
## 7 2000 Never married 36 White $25000 or more Not str r… Chri… Not … 3
## 8 2000 Divorced 44 White $7000 to 7999 Ind,near … Prot… Luth… NA
## 9 2000 Married 44 White $25000 or more Not str d… Prot… Other 0
## 10 2000 Married 47 White $25000 or more Strong re… Prot… Sout… 3
## # ℹ 21,473 more rows- In a tibble we can use
count()to see the levels of a factor:
## # A tibble: 3 × 2
## race n
## <fct> <int>
## 1 Other 1959
## 2 Black 3129
## 3 White 16395