Create Sample Employment Data for Visualization Testing

Generates synthetic employment data that demonstrates various employment patterns and can be used for testing and demonstrating the visualization functions.

Usage

create_sample_employment_data(
  n_people = 20,
  n_periods = 4,
  date_range = c("2022-01-01", "2024-12-31"),
  include_overlaps = TRUE,
  include_gaps = TRUE,
  seed = 123
)

Arguments

n_people

Integer. Number of individuals to simulate (default: 20)

n_periods

Integer. Average number of employment periods per person (default: 4)

date_range

Character vector of length 2. Start and end dates (default: c("2022-01-01", "2024-12-31"))

include_overlaps

Logical. Include overlapping employment periods (default: TRUE)

include_gaps

Logical. Include unemployment gaps (default: TRUE)

seed

Integer. Random seed for reproducibility (default: 123)

Value

A data.table with sample employment data ready for vecshift analysis

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Create sample data
sample_data <- create_sample_employment_data(n_people = 10, n_periods = 3)

# Apply vecshift transformation
result <- vecshift(sample_data)

# Create visualizations
plot_employment_timeline(result)
plot_employment_distribution(result)
} # }