housingR Documentation

Homeless Data

Description

Housing status for 362 severely mentally ill homeless subjects measured at baseline and at three follow-up times.

Usage

data(housing)

Format

A data frame with 1448 observations on the following 4 variables:

id

Subject identifier variable.

y

Housing status response, coded as (1) for street living, (2) for community living and (3) for independent housing.

time

Time recorded in months.

sec

Section 8 rent certificate indicator.

Source

Hulrburt M.S., Wood, P.A. and Hough, R.L. (1996). Providing independent housing for the homeless mentally ill: a novel approach to evaluating longitudinal housing patterns. Journal of Community Psychology, 24, 291–310.

Examples

data(housing)
str(housing)