R Dataset / Package car / SLID
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the SLID data set which pertains to Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics. The SLID data set is found in the car R package. You can load the SLID data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("SLID"). This will load the data into a variable called SLID. If R says the SLID data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("car") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the SLID R data set. The size of this file is about 207,702 bytes.
Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics
Description
The SLID
data frame has 7425 rows and 5 columns. The data are from the 1994 wave of the Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, for the province of Ontario. There are missing data, particularly for wages.
Usage
SLID
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
- wages
-
Composite hourly wage rate from all jobs.
- education
-
Number of years of schooling.
- age
-
in years.
- sex
-
A factor with levels:
Female
,Male
. - language
-
A factor with levels:
English
,French
,Other
.
Source
The data are taken from the public-use dataset made available by Statistics Canada, and prepared by the Institute for Social Research, York University.
References
Fox, J. (2008) Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models, Second Edition. Sage.
Fox, J. and Weisberg, S. (2011) An R Companion to Applied Regression, Second Edition, Sage.
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.