Ecdat (version 0.3-9)

AccountantsAuditorsPct: Accountants and Auditors in the US 1850-2016

Description

Accountants and auditors as a percent of the US labor force 1850 to 2016 updating the analysis in Wyatt and Hecker (2006).

Usage

data(AccountantsAuditorsPct)

Format

a numeric vector of length 30 giving the percent of the US labor force in "Accounting and Auditing" each decade from 1850 to 2010 except for 1940 plus each year between 2011 and 2016.

References

Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, Bicentennial Edition, part 1 (U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1975)

Steven Ruggles, Sarah Flood, Ronald Goeken, Josiah Grover, Erin Meyer, Jose Pacas, and Matthew Sobek (2018) IPUMS USA: Version 8.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS.

Matthew Sobek (2006) Chapter Ba. "Labor Occupations" in Susan B. Carter, ed., Historical Statistics of the United States, Cambridge U. Pr.

Ian D. Wyatt and Daniel E. Hecker (2006) "Occupational changes during the 20th century", Monthly Labor Review, March 2006, pp. 35-57

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(AccountantsAuditorsPct)
plot(names(AccountantsAuditorsPct), AccountantsAuditorsPct, 
  type='l', log='y', cex.axis=1.8)
# for the version of this contributed to Wikimedia Commons  
# }