workingWomen: Women in the workforce

In fastR: Data sets and utilities for Foundations and Applications of Statistics by R Pruim

Description

The labor force participation rate of women in each of 19 U.S. cities in each of two years. # Reference: United States Department of Labor Statistics # # Authorization: free use # # Description: # # Variable Names: # # 1. City: City in the United States # 2. labor72: Labor Force Participation rate of women in 1972 # 3. labor68: Labor Force Participation rate of women in 1968 # # The Data: #

Usage

data(workingWomen)

Format

A data frame with 19 observations on the following 3 variables.

city

name of a U.S. city (coded as a factor with 19 levels)

labor72

percent of women in labor force in 1972

labor68

percent of women in labor force in 1968

Source

These data are from the United States Department of Labor Statistics and are also available at DASL, the Data and Story Library (http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/).

Examples

data(workingWomen)
xyplot(labor72 ~ labor68, workingWomen)

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