Name:

Description:

Wage and other data for a group of 3000 male workers in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Variables:

A data frame with 3000 observations on the following 12 variables.

year

Year that wage information was recorded

age

Age of worker

maritl

A factor with levels 1. Never Married 2. Married 3. Widowed 4. Divorced and 5. Separated indicating marital status

race

A factor with levels 1. White 2. Black 3. Asian and 4. Other indicating race

education

A factor with levels 1. < HS Grad 2. HS Grad 3. Some College 4. College Grad and 5. Advanced Degree indicating education level

region

Region of the country (mid-atlantic only)

jobclass

A factor with levels 1. Industrial and 2. Information indicating type of job

health

A factor with levels 1. <=Good and 2. >=Very Good indicating health level of worker

health_ins

A factor with levels 1. Yes and 2. No indicating whether worker has health insurance

logwage

Log of workers wage

wage

Workers raw wage

Link To Google Sheets:

Rows:

Columns:

Files:

License Type:

References/Notes/Attributions:

Source

Data was manually assembled by Steve Miller, of Open BI (www.openbi.com), from the March 2011 Supplement to Current Population Survey data.

http://thedataweb.rm.census.gov/TheDataWeb

References

James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., and Tibshirani, R. (2013) An Introduction to Statistical Learning with applications in R, www.StatLearning.com, Springer-Verlag, New York

R Dataset Upload:

Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.

R Coding Interface: