nzherald / OccupationsNZ1891

OccupationsNZ1891

R data package for occupation data from the 1891 census.

Exports a occupations a data frame with occupation data broken down by age group and gender.

The occupations are grouped by Class, Sub Class (can be undefined), Order, Sub Order and Occupation. The Occupation labels are not unique so the higher level categories are needed to fully define the data.

Use from R

install.packages('devtools')
devtools::install_github('nzherald/OccupationsNZ1891')
library(OccupationsNZ1891)

Use from anywhere

There is a csv file data-raw/occupations.csv

Source

The data was extracted from Chapter 73 of the 1891 Census