chicago:
Labor market and demographic data for employed Hispanic workers in metropolitan Chicago
Description
Data from a 2013 sample of employed Hispanic workers in metropolitan Chicago. It is a subset of the 2013 Current Population Survey (CPS) Outgoing Rotation Groups (ORG) data set provided by the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC (CEPR, 2014).
Format
A data frame with 712 observations on the following 9 variables. The 9 variables contain labor market and demographic information on a sample of employed Hispanic workers in the Chicago metropolitan area.
age
- the worker's age, expressed in years
female
- an indicator for female gender
foreign.born
- an indicator for foreign-born status
LTHS
- an indicator for having completed less than a high school (LTHS) education
high.school
- an indicator for having completed a high school education
some.college
- an indicator for having completed some college education
college
- an indicator for having completed a college education
advanced.degree
- an indicator for having completed an advanced degree
ln.real.wage
- the natural logarithm of the worker's real wage (in 2013 U.S. dollars)
Source
Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). 2014. CPS ORG Uniform Extracts, Version 1.9 . Washington, DC.Examples
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