ex1030: Wage and Race 2011
Description
A data set with weekly earnings for 4,952 males between the age of 18 and 70
sampled in the March 2011 Current Population Survey (CPS). These males are a
subset who had reported earnings and who responded as having race as either
``Only White'' or ``Only Black.'' Also recorded are the region of the country
(with four categories: Northeast, Midwest, South, and West), the metropolitan
status of the men's employment (with three categories: Metropolitan, Not
Metropolitan, and Not Identified), age, education category (with 16 categories
ranging from ``Less than first grade'' to ``doctorate Degree''), and education
code, which is a numerical value that corresponds roughly to increasing levels
of education (and so may be useful for plotting). What evidence do the data
provide that the distributions of weekly earnings differ in the populations of
white and black workers after accounting for the other variables? By how many
dollars or by what percent does the White population mean (or median) exceed
the Black population mean (or median)?source
Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2013). The Statistical Sleuth: A
Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd ed), Cengage Learning.References
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and U.S. Bureau of the Census: Current
Population Survey, March 2011 http://www.bls.gov/cps