income: income data
In jrnold/bps5data: Datasets from The Basic Practice of Statistics, 5th ed.

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Dataset income The Basic Practice of Statistics, 5th edition.

1	data("income")

\Sexpr[results=rd]{bps5data:::doc_data("income", variables = FALSE)}

Sex: 1=male, 2=female
Income: Total personal income, dollars
Race: Person's race, 1=white, 2=black, 4=Asian
Age: Person's age in years
Educ: Educational attainment. 1=less than high school, 2=some high school but no diploma, 3=high school graduate, 4=some college but less than bachelor's degree, 5=bachelor's degree, 6=master's, professional, or doctoral degree. (Educational attainment is condensed from 16 levels in the CPS data.)

Personal income and demographic data from the March, 2008 supplement to the Current Population Survey. Data on all 82,249 respondents aged 25 to 64 years who were currently in the labor force and who listed their race as Asian, black, or white. This is a random sample from all such residents of the United States.

http://bcs.whfreeman.com/bps5e/content/cat_110/bps5e_large_datasets.zip

Moore, David S. 2009. The Basic Practice of Statistics. 5th edition. New York: W. H. Freeman.

Other large datasets from BPS 5th ed.: bliss; call; class; concept; education; floridavote; foodsafety; literacy; newt; reading; verizon