us16 {ineq.2d}R Documentation

Test dataset for the ineq.2d package

Description

This data set is a combination of household and personal-level data sets available as sample files on the Luxembourg Income Study website. The data sets were combined to assign personal characteristics of household heads to households.

Usage

us16

Format

A data frame with 1000 rows and 8 variables:

hitotal

Total income, sum of hitransfer, hilabour, and hicapital.

hitransfer

Transfer income.

hilabour

Labor income.

hicapital

Capital income.

hpopwgt

Population weights.

age

Age of the household head.

sex

Sex of the household head.

educ

Education level of the household head.

Details

Thus, the combined data set contains income data on 1000 households. This includes three income sources and value for total income. Additionally, contains several features of every household head: sex, education, and age.

Source

LIS Cross-national Data Center, https://www.lisdatacenter.org/resources/self-teaching/

Examples

# To load the dataset to the environment, use the following code:
data(us16)

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