ACS: American Community Survey
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Data from a sample of individuals in the American Community Survey

A dataset with 1000 observations on the following 9 variables.

`Sex`	0=female and 1=male
`Age`	Age (years)
`Married`	0=not married and 1=married
`Income`	Wages and salary for the past 12 months (in $1,000's)
`HoursWk`	Hours of work per week
`Race`	`asian`, `black`, `white`, or `other`
`USCitizen`	1=citizen and 0=noncitizen
`HealthInsurance`	1=have health insurance and 0= no health insurance
`Language`	1=native English speaker and 0=other

The American Community Survey, administered by the US Census Bureau, is given every year to a random sample of about 3.5 million households (about 3% of all US households). Data on a random sample of 1% of all US residents are made public (after ensuring anonymity), and we have selected a random sub-sample of n = 1000 from the 2010 data for this dataset.

The full public dataset can be downloaded at
http://www.census.gov/acs/www/data documentation/pums data/,
and the full list of variables are at
http://www.census.gov/acs/www/Downloads/data documentation/pums/DataDict/PUMSDataDict10.pdf.

Lock5Data documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:48 p.m.