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1 Why do people leave a company?
At the end of 2018, all the employees of a large company completed an anonymous survey. The company had nearly four thousand employees at that time. The results of the survey, in the file http://ritsokiguess.site/datafiles/survey-responses.csv, contain the following variables:
the gender the employee identifies as
the department in the company where they work
sentiment: whether they are happy in their job (1 = strongly disagree to 10 = strongly agree)
intention: whether they intend to find a new job (1 = strongly disagree to 10 = strongly agree)
iid: an employee ID code (to protect the employee’s identity, but the same code refers to the same employee wherever it appears)
level: a coarser subdivision of the sentiment scale into low, medium, and high (we ignore this column).
Some of the employees, in fact over a thousand of them, left the company within the two years after the survey. A second data file shows which employees left, and the date they left the company. This has two columns: the same iid as in the employee survey data (same iid implies same employee), and the date the employee left (as year-month-day). This data file is in http://ritsokiguess.site/datafiles/departure-dates.csv.
(a) (1 point) Read in and display some of the employee survey data.
Rows: 3770 Columns: 6
── Column specification ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Delimiter: ","
chr (4): iid, gender, department, level
dbl (2): sentiment, intention
ℹ Use `spec()` to retrieve the full column specification for this data.
ℹ Specify the column types or set `show_col_types = FALSE` to quiet this message.