EmployedACS: Employed in American Community Survey - 2023

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Employed in American Community Survey - 2023

Description

Employed individuals from the American Community Survey (ACS) dataset

Format

A data frame with 5862 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, white

USCitizen

1=citizen and 0=noncitizen

HealthInsurance

1=have health insurance and 0= no health insurance

Language

1=native English speaker and 0=other

Details

This is a subset of the ACS dataset from 2023 including only 5862 individuals who were employed. (HoursWk>0)
** Updated for 4e (an earlier versions are EmployedACS2017 and EmployedACS2010). **

Source

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

Specific request for these variables is https://data.census.gov/app/mdat/ACSPUMS1Y2023/table?cv=SEX,MAR,RAC1P,HICOV&vv=AGEP,WAGP,WKHP&rv=CIT,LANX&wt=PWGTP

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