R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Workinghours

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Workinghours data set which pertains to Wife Working Hours . The Workinghours data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Workinghours data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Workinghours"). This will load the data into a variable called Workinghours. If R says the Workinghours 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 Workinghours R data set. The size of this file is about 117,295 bytes.

Wife Working Hours

Description

a cross-section from 1987

number of observations : 3382

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Workinghours)

Format

A dataframe containing :

hours: wife working hours per year
income: the other household income in hundreds of dollars
age: age of the wife
education: education years of the wife
child5: number of children for ages 0 to 5
child13: number of children for ages 6 to 13
child17: number of children for ages 14 to 17
nonwhite: non–white ?
owned: is the home owned by the household ?
mortgage: is the home on mortgage ?
occupation: occupation of the husband, one of mp (manager or
unemp: local unemployment rate in %

Source

Lee, Myoung–Jae (1995) “Semi–parametric estimation of simultaneous equations with limited dependent variables : a case study of female labour supply”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 10(2), april–june, 187–200.

References

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

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