Wage and other data for a group of 3000 male workers in the
Mid-Atlantic region.
Usage
Wage
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 3000 observations on the following 11 variables.
year
Year that wage information was recorded
age
Age of worker
maritl
A factor with levels 1. Never Married2. Married3. Widowed4. Divorced and
5. Separated indicating marital status
race
A factor with levels 1. White2. Black3. Asian and 4. Other indicating race
education
A factor with levels 1. < HS Grad2. HS Grad3. Some College4. College Grad
and 5. Advanced Degree indicating education level
region
Region of the country (mid-atlantic only)
jobclass
A factor with levels 1. Industrial and
2. Information indicating type of job
health
A factor with levels 1. <=Good and
2. >=Very Good indicating health level of worker
health_ins
A factor with levels 1. Yes and
2. No indicating whether worker has health insurance
logwage
Log of workers wage
wage
Workers raw wage
References
James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., and Tibshirani, R. (2013)
An Introduction to Statistical Learning with applications in R,
https://www.statlearning.com,
Springer-Verlag, New York