Ornstein                 package:car                 R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     The `Ornstein' data frame has 248 rows and 4 columns.
 The
     observations are the 248 largest Canadian firms with
 publicly
     available information in the mid-1970s. The names
 of the firms
     were not available.

_U_s_a_g_e:


     data(Ornstein)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     This data frame contains the following columns:

     _a_s_s_e_t_s Assets in millions of dollars.
 

     _s_e_c_t_o_r Industrial sector.
 A factor with levels:
 `AGR',
          agriculture, food, light industry;
 `BNK', banking; 
 `CON',
          construction; 
 `FIN', other financial;
 `HLD', holding
          companies; 
 `MAN', heavy manufacturing; 
 `MER',
          merchandizing;
 `MIN', mining, metals, etc.;
 `TRN',
          transport;
 `WOD', wood and paper.
 

     _n_a_t_i_o_n Nation of control.
 A factor with levels:
 `CAN', Canada;
          `OTH', other foreign;
 `UK', Britain;
 `US', United States.
 

     _i_n_t_e_r_l_o_c_k_s Number of interlocking director and executive positions
          shared with
 other major firms.
 

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Ornstein, M. (1976) 
 The boards and executives of the largest
     Canadian corporations. 
 Canadian Journal of Sociology 1, 411-437.

     Personal communication from M. Ornstein, Department of Sociology,
     York University.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Fox, J. (1997)
 Applied Regression, Linear Models, and Related
     Methods. Sage.

