Having generated the categorical variable of objective social status, we quantify the divergence between subjective social status and objective social status.
Continuous explanatory variables were coded into categorical variables using objective definitions (e.g. quartiles for SF 36 PCS scores) and with reference to categories accepted in the literature (e.g., World Health Organisation BMI groups [ 15]).
As regards this paper, the latent categorical variable refers to objective social status, while the manifest categorical variables are three major indicators in the surveys, namely income, education, and occupational prestige.
A questionnaire to collect the objective and categorical data parameters was designed and internally tested by all six authors.
This, perhaps, provides insight into why Mackie objects not to categorical imperatives per se, but to objective categorical imperatives: It is categorical imperatives that profess to transcend all institutions, that purport to depend for their legitimacy on "requirements which simply are there, in the nature of things" (1977: 59), that are singled out as erroneous.
It would be a categorical failure on their own objective of 'putting their own house in order and helping developing countries to prosper' if this is all they have to give.
Then we assign the respondents to the five latent classes to create a new categorical variable representing one's objective status.
Further, all the respondents could then be assigned to the appropriate latent classes to create a new categorical variable immediately denoting his/her objective position in the social hierarchy.
Following bivariate analyses comparing home with other places of death, logistic regressions will be conducted to determine the relative influence of different factors on death at home (vs. hospital death and vs. institutional death), place of death being the dependent categorical variable (home - yes/no) (objective 4).
Due to the continuous nature of the objective data and the categorical nature of the subjective data, frequency distributions were conducted and matching categories were established for the objective data.
