R Dataset / Package Ecdat / CPSch3

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the CPSch3 data set which pertains to Earnings from the Current Population Survey . The CPSch3 data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the CPSch3 data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("CPSch3"). This will load the data into a variable called CPSch3. If R says the CPSch3 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 CPSch3 R data set. The size of this file is about 329,287 bytes.

Earnings from the Current Population Survey

Description

a cross-section from 1998

number of observations : 11130

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(CPSch3)

Format

A dataframe containing :

year: survey year
ahe: average hourly earnings
sex: a factor with levels (male,female)

Source

Bureau of labor statistics, U.S. Department of Labor http://www.bls.gov.

References

Stock, James H. and Mark W. Watson (2003) Introduction to Econometrics, Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers, chapter 3.

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