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

A dataset with 1000 observations on the following 9 variables.

Sex a factor with levels Female and Male
Age age in years
Married a factor with levels Married and Not Married
Income Wages and salary for the past 12 months (in \$1,000's)
HoursWk Hours of work per week
Race a factor with levels asian, black, white, or other
USCitizen a factor wit two levels (Citizen and Noncitizen).
HealthInsurance a factor with two levels (Insured and Uninsured
Language a factor with two levels (English and 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 = 1000 from the 2010 data for this dataset.

The full public dataset can be downloaded at http://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/data/pums.html, and the full list of variables are at http://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/guidance.html.

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