Mid-Atlantic Wage Data

Description

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

Usage

Wage

Format

A data frame with 3000 observations on the following 11 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

Source

Data was manually assembled by Steve Miller, of Inquidia Consulting (formerly Open BI). From the March 2011 Supplement to Current Population Survey data.

https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100011860

References

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

Examples

summary(Wage)
lm(wage~year+age,data=Wage)
## maybe str(Wage) ; plot(Wage) ...