R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Bwages

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Bwages data set which pertains to Wages in Belgium . The Bwages data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Bwages data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Bwages"). This will load the data into a variable called Bwages. If R says the Bwages data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Ecdat") 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 Bwages R data set. The size of this file is about 31,847 bytes.

Wages in Belgium

Description

a cross-section from 1994

number of observations : 1472

observation : individuals

country : Belgium

Usage

data(Bwages)

Format

A dataframe containing :

wage: gross hourly wage rate in euro
educ: education level from 1 [low] to 5 [high]
exper: years of experience
sex: a factor with levels (males,female)

Source

European Community Household Panel.

References

Verbeek, Marno (2004) A Guide to Modern Econometrics, John Wiley and Sons, chapter 3.

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