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Gender Differences in Wages
Description
These data are weekly earnings for 9,835 Americans surveyed in the March 2011 Current Population Survey (CPS). What evidence is there from these data that males tend to receive higher earnings than females with the same values of the other variables? By how many dollars or by what percent does the male distribution exceed the female distribution?
Usage
ex1225
Format
A data frame with 9,835 observations on the following 9 variables.
- Region
a factor with levels
"Midwest"
,"Northeast"
,"South"
, and"West"
- MetropolitanStatus
a a factor with levels
"Metropolitan"
,"Not Identified"
, and
"Not Metropolitan"
- Age
age in years
- Sex
a factor with levels
"Female"
and"Male"
- MaritalStatus
a factor with levels
"Married"
and"NotMarried"
- EdCode
a numerical variable representing educational attainment, with higher numbers corresponding to higher educational categories
- Education
a factor with 16 levels of educational category
- JobClass
a a factor with levels
"FedGov"
,"LocalGov"
,"Private"
,and"StateGov"
- WeeklyEarnings
weekly wages in U.S. dollars
Source
Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2013). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd ed), Cengage Learning.
References
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and U.S. Bureau of the Census: Current Population Survey, March 2011 https://www.bls.gov/cps/data.htm July 25, 2011.
Examples
str(ex1225)