Wages: Weekly earnings of workers

In dtkaplan/StatsUsingTechnologyData: Data sets from Kathryn Kozak's textbook

Description

Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by detailed occupation and sex. The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a monthly survey of households conducted by the Bureau of Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It provides a comprehensive body of data on the labor force, employ- ment, unemployment, persons not in the labor force, hours of work, earnings, and other demographic and labor force characteristics.

Usage

data(Wages)

Format

A data.frame wherein each row is one occupation

• Occupation: Occupations of workers.

• Numworkers: The number of workers in each occupation (in thousands of workers)

• median_wage: Median weekly wage ($)

• male_worker: number of male workers (in thousands of workers)

• male_wage: Median weekly wage of male workers ($)

• female_worker: number of female workers (in thousands of workers)

• female_wage: Median weekly wage of female workers ($)

Source

CPS News Releases. (n.d.). Retrieved July 8, 2019, from https://www. bls.gov/cps/#'

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