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Silicon Valley programmers and engineers

Description

This data set is adapted from the 2000 Census (5% sample, person records). It is restricted to programmers and engineers in the Silicon Valley area.

The variable codes, e.g. occupational codes, are available from the Census Bureau, at http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/pums.pdf. (Short code lists are given in the record layout, but longer ones are in the appendix Code Lists.)

The variables are:

• age, with a U(0,1) variate added for jitter

• cit, citizenship; 1-4 code various categories of citizens; 5 means noncitizen (including permanent residents

• educ: 01-09 code no college; 10-12 means some college; 13 is a bachelor's degree, 14 a master's, 15 a professiona deal and 16 is a doctorate

• engl, English proficiency

• occ, occupation

• birth, place of birth

• wageinc, wage income

• wkswrkd, number of weeks worked

• yrentry, year of entry to the U.S. (0 for natives)

• powpuma, location of work

• gender, 1 for male, 2 for female

Usage

data(prgeng); prgeng