wages.matrix: Wages and Related Data for 1289 Workers (Matrix Format)

Description Usage Format Source References Examples

Description

A random sample of 1,280 workers from the Cirrent Population Survey (CPS) for March 1995.

Usage

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Format

A list with two elements:

y

wages

X

gender, race, union, education, experiemce, and age

X has the following elements:

gender

Gender, 1 for female, 0 for male.

race

Race, 1 for nonwhite workers and 0 for white workers.

union

Union status, 1 if in union, 0 otherwise.

education

Education in years.

experience

Work experience in years.

age

Age in years.

Both y and X have 1289 rows.

Source

From Chapter 4 in Gujarati (2019).

References

Gujarati, D. N. (2019). Linear regression: A mathematical introduction. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications. ISBN:9781544336558. Google:pqxyDwAAQBAJ

Examples

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data(wages.matrix, package = "jeksterslabRdatarepo")
str(wages.matrix)
head(wages.matrix[["y"]])
head(wages.matrix[["X"]])

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