sipp08: Housholder earnings from the SIPP
Description
A dataset extracted from the first wave of the 2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation,
constructed by retaining
all heads of household with positive earnings from employment and complete
cases. This is useful as a realistic population for studying imputation routines.
Format
A data frame with 30507 rows and 13 variables:
- total_earnings
- Total monthly earnings from employment (USD)
- age
- Age (years)
- sex
- Sex
- race
- Single race/ethnicity
- marital_status
- Marital Status
- born_us
- Born in or outside the United States
- own_kid
- Number of respondent's own children living in the household
- edu_level
- Level of education
- occ
- Occupation code for primary job (recoded from variable TJBOCC1 in the SIPP)
- worker_class
- Private/Non-profit/Government worker
- union
- Union member
- hourly
- Primary job is paid hourly
- hrs
- Usual hours worked per week