CPS85: Data from the 1985 Current Population Survey (CPS85)
Description
The Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to supplement census
information between census years. These data consist of a random
sample of persons from the CPS85, with information on wages and
other characteristics of the workers, including sex, number of years
of education, years of work experience, occupational status, region of
residence and union membership.format
A data frame with 534 observations on the following variables.
{wage (US dollars per hour)}
educ
{number of years of education}
race
{a factor with levels NW
(nonwhite) or W
(white)}
sex
{a factor with levels F
M
}
hispanic
{a factor with levels Hisp
NH
}
south
{a factor with levels NS
S
}
married
{a factor with levels Married
Single
}
exper
{number of years of work experience (inferred from age
and
educ
)}
union
{a factor with levels Not
Union
}
age
{age in years}
sector
{a factor with levels clerical
const
manag
manuf
other
prof
sales
service
}source
Data are from http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/CPS_85_Wages.Details
Data are from 1985.
The data file is recoded from the original, which had
entirely numerical codes.References
Berndt, ER. The Practice of Econometrics 1991. Addison-Wesley.