EmployedACS: Employed in American Community Survey

In Lock5withR: Datasets for 'Statistics: Unlocking the Power of Data'

Description

Employed individiuals from the American Community Survey (ACS) dataset

Format

A dataset with 431 observations on the following 9 variables.

• sex Female or Male

• Sex 0 or 1

• Age Age (years)

• married 0 or 1

• Married Not Married or Married

• Income Wages and salary for the past 12 months (in \$1,000's)

• HoursWk Hours of work per week

• Race asian, black, white, or other

• UScitizen Citizen or Noncitizen

• USCitizen 0 or 1

• healthInsurance Insured or Uninsured

• HealthInsurance 0 or 1

• codelanguage Native language: English or Other

• codeLanguage Native language: 0 or 1

Details

This is a subset of the ACS dataset including only 431 individuals who were employed.

Several variables in this data set are included in two encodings. (Watch your capitalization.) The lowercase versions have more intuitive codings and can be used to interpret the numerical codes.

Source

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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