EmployedACS {Lock5Data}

Employed in American Community Survey

Description

Employed individuals from the American Community Survey (ACS) dataset

Format

A data frame with 1287 observations on the following 9 variables.

Sex

0=female and 1=male

Age

Age (years)

Married

0=not married and 1=married

Income

Wages and salary for the past 12 months (in $1,000's)

HoursWk

Hours of work per week

Race

asian, black, other, white

USCitizen

1=citizen and 0=noncitizen

HealthInsurance

1=have health insurance and 0= no health insurance

Language

1=native English speaker and 0=other

Details

This is a subset of the ACS dataset including only 1287 individuals who were employed. (HoursWk>0)
** Updated for 3e (an earlier version is at EmployedACS2010). **

Source

The full public dataset can be downloaded at https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/microdata/access.html, and the full list of variables is at https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/microdata.html