README.md

In yowie: Longitudinal Wages Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979

yowie

The goal of yowie is to provide longitudinal wages data sets along with several demographic variables of Americans from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) from Round 1 (the survey year 1979) to Round 28 (the survey year 2018). The NLSY79 is a longitudinal project held by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that follows the lives of a sample of American youth born between 1957-64. The cohort originally included 12,686 respondents ages 14-22 when first interviewed in 1979. There are three data sets provided in this package:

• wages: The wages data from the cohort whose highest grade completed is up to 12th grade.
• wages_hs_do: The wages data of the high school dropouts.
• demog_nlsy79: The demographic data of the NLSY79 cohort.

Installation

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("numbats/yowie")

Example

Here is the example of plotting some samples of subjects in wages_hs using brolgar (Tierney, Cook, and Prvan, 2020).

library(yowie)
library(brolgar)
library(ggplot2)

set.seed(20210217)

ggplot(yowie::wages, 
       aes(x = year,
           y = wage,
           group = id)) +
  geom_line(alpha = 0.7) +
  facet_sample() +
  ylab("mean hourly wage") +
  theme_bw()

About the package name

A yowie is a mythical creature in Australian foklore akin to Big Foot or Sasquatch in north America. In terms of the package it can be considered an acronym: Years Of Wages to Investigate and Explore.

yowie documentation built on Sept. 6, 2021, 5:06 p.m.