Pgm. Vanderheijden et al., MULTIPLE CORRESPONDENCE-ANALYSIS AS A TOOL FOR QUANTIFICATION OR CLASSIFICATION OF CAREER DATA, Journal of educational and behavioral statistics, 22(4), 1997, pp. 447-477
Career data of an individual are defined by counts that describe the a
mount of time an individual has spent in each of a number of mutually
exclusive stares. It is argued that correspondence analysis is particu
larly suited to such data, and this is illustrated by an example from
educational careers. Furthermore it is shown that correspondence analy
sis can be used for a quantification of individual careers into one or
more scores, or a classification, that can then be used in further an
alyses.