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Wage and Education Data from the 1985 Current Population Survey
Description
This is a subsample of 100 males and 100 females randomly selected from the 534 cases that comprised the 1985 Current Population Survey in a way that controls for highest education level attained. The sample of 200 contains 20 males and 20 females with less than a high school diploma, 20 males and 20 females with a high school diploma, 20 males and 20 females with some college training, 20 males and 20 females with a college diploma, and 20 males and 20 females with some graduate school training. The data include information about gender, highest education level attained, and hourly wage.
Usage
Wages
Format
A data frame with 400 rows and 9 variables:
- id
case number
- educ
number of years of education
- south
indicator for whether individual lives in the South
- sex
individual’s sex
- exper
number of years of work experience
- wage
wage (dollars per hour)
- occup
occupation category
- marr
marital status
- ed
highest education level