R Dataset / Package Ecdat / HI

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the HI data set which pertains to Health Insurance and Hours Worked By Wives . The HI data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the HI data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("HI"). This will load the data into a variable called HI. If R says the HI 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 HI R data set. The size of this file is about 1,558,750 bytes.

Health Insurance and Hours Worked By Wives

Description

a cross-section from 1993

number of observations : 22272

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(HI)

Format

A dataframe containing :

whrswk: hours worked per week by wife
hhi: wife covered by husband's HI ?
whi: wife has HI thru her job ?
hhi2: husband has HI thru own job ?
education: a factor with levels, "<9years", "9-11years", "12years", "13-15years", "16years", ">16years"
race: one of white, black, other
hispanic: hispanic ?
experience: years of potential work experience
kidslt6: number of kids under age of 6
kids618: number of kids 6–18 years old
husby: husband's income in thousands of dollars
region: one of other, northcentral, south, west
wght: sampling weight

Source

Olson, Craig A. (1998) “A comparison of parametric and semiparametric estimates of the effect of spousal health insurance coverage on weekly hours worked by wiwes”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 13(5), september–october, 543–565.

References

Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/.

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