MULTIPLE CORRESPONDENCE-ANALYSIS AS A TOOL FOR QUANTIFICATION OR CLASSIFICATION OF CAREER DATA

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.