chicago: Labor market and demographic data for employed Hispanic...

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Description

Data from a 2013 sample of employed Hispanic workers in metropolitan Chicago. It is a subset of the 2013 Current Population Survey (CPS) Outgoing Rotation Groups (ORG) data set provided by the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC (CEPR, 2014).

Usage

data("chicago")

Format

A data frame containing 712 observations on 9 variables. The 9 variables contain labor market and demographic information on a sample of employed Hispanic workers in the Chicago metropolitan area.

[, 1]	age	the worker's age, expressed in years
[, 2]	female	an indicator for female gender
[, 3]	foreign.born	an indicator for foreign-born status
[, 4]	LTHS	an indicator for having completed less than a high school (LTHS) education
[, 5]	high.school	an indicator for having completed a high school education
[, 6]	some.college	an indicator for having completed some college education
[, 7]	college	an indicator for having completed a college education
[, 8]	advanced.degree	an indicator for having completed an advanced degree
[, 9]	ln.real.wage	the natural logarithm of the worker's real wage (in 2013 U.S. dollars)

Source

Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). 2014. CPS ORG Uniform Extracts, Version 1.9 . Washington, DC.

Examples

data("chicago")
summary(chicago)

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