ACS: American Community Survey
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Data from a sample of individuals in the American Community Survey

A data frame with 2000 observations on the following 9 variables.

Sex: 0=female and 1=male
Age: Age (years)
Married: 0=not married and 1=married
Income: Wages and salary for the past 12 months (in $1,000's)
HoursWk: Hours of work per week
Race: asian, black, other, or white
USCitizen: 1=citizen and 0=noncitizen
HealthInsurance: 1=have health insurance and 0=no health insurance
Language: 1=English spoken at home and 0=other

The American Community Survey, administered by the US Census Bureau, is given every year to a random sample of about 3.5 million households (about 3% of all US households). Data on a random sample of 1% of all US residents are made public (after ensuring anonymity), and we have selected a random sub-sample of n = 2000 from the 2017 data for this dataset.
** Updated for 3e (earlier version is ACS2010). **

The full public dataset can be downloaded at https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/microdata.html, and the full list of variables are at https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/microdata/documentation.html

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