Mid-Atlantic Wage DataDescriptionWage and other data for a group of 3000 workers in the
Mid-Atlantic region.
UsageWage
FormatA data frame with 3000 observations on the following 12 variables.
yearYear that wage information was recorded
ageAge of worker
sexGender
maritlA factor with levels 1. Never Married
2. Married 3. Widowed 4. Divorced and
5. Separated indicating marital status
raceA factor with levels 1. White
2. Black 3. Asian and 4. Other indicating race
educationA factor with levels 1. < HS Grad
2. HS Grad 3. Some College 4. College Grad
and 5. Advanced Degree indicating education level
regionRegion of the country (mid-atlantic only)
jobclassA factor with levels 1. Industrial and
2. Information indicating type of job
healthA factor with levels 1. <=Good and
2. >=Very Good indicating health level of worker
health_insA factor with levels 1. Yes and
2. No indicating whether worker has health insurance
logwageLog of workers wage
wageWorkers raw wage
SourceData was manually assembled by Steve Miller, of Open BI
(www.openbi.com), from the March 2011 Supplement to Current Population
Survey data.
http://thedataweb.rm.census.gov/TheDataWeb
ReferencesGames, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., and Tibshirani, R. (2013)
An Introduction to Statistical Learning with applications in R,
www.StatLearning.com,
Springer-Verlag, New York
Examples
summary(Wage)
lm(wage~year+age,data=Wage)
## maybe str(Wage) ; plot(Wage) ...
-- Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.
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