acs.couples: Married Couples from ACS 2011-2015

acs.couplesR Documentation

Married Couples from ACS 2011-2015

Description

A dataset containing information on a sample of married couples from the American Community Survey 2011-2015 data for the states of New York and California. Data were downloaded from IPUMS.

Usage

acs.couples

Format

A data frame containing data on 1000 married couples from the 2011-2015 ACS data drawn randomly from the states of New York and California. The data frame contains the following variables for each couple:

state

State of residence. This can be used to select appropriate cluster to sample alternate spouses

hhwt

Household weight for the given couple

idw

unique id of wife

agew

age of wife

racew

race of wife. Either "W" (white) or "B" (black)

idh

unique id of husband

ageh

age of husband

raceh

race of husband. Either "W" (white) or "B" (black)

Source

https://usa.ipums.org/usa/


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