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CPS Wages Data

A random sample of 534 workers from the Current Population Survey (CPS) from 1985.

Installation

npm install @stdlib/datasets-berndt-cps-wages-1985

Alternatively,

• To load the package in a website via a script tag without installation and bundlers, use the ES Module available on the esm branch (see README).
• If you are using Deno, visit the deno branch (see README for usage intructions).
• For use in Observable, or in browser/node environments, use the Universal Module Definition (UMD) build available on the umd branch (see README).
• To use as a general utility for the command line, install the corresponding CLI package globally.

The branches.md file summarizes the available branches and displays a diagram illustrating their relationships.

To view installation and usage instructions specific to each branch build, be sure to explicitly navigate to the respective README files on each branch, as linked to above.

Usage

var cps = require( '@stdlib/datasets-berndt-cps-wages-1985' );

cps()

Returns a random sample of 534 workers from the Current Population Survey (CPS) from 1985, including their wages and and other characteristics.

var data = cps();
// returns [{...},{...},...]

Each array element has the following eleven fields:

• education: number of years of education.
• south: indicator variable for southern region (1 if a person lives in the South; 0 if a person does not live in the South).
• gender: gender of the person.
• experience: number of years of work experience.
• union: indicator variable for union membership (1 if union member; 0 if not a union member).
• wage: log-transformed wage (in dollars per hour).
• age: age (in years).
• race: ethnicity/race ('white', 'hispanic', and 'other').
• occupation: occupational category ('management', 'sales', 'clerical', 'service', 'professional', and 'other').
• sector: sector ('other', 'manufacturing', or 'construction').
• married: marital status (0 if unmarried; 1 if married).

Notes

• Based on residual plots, wages were log-transformed to stabilize the variance.

Examples

var Plot = require( '@stdlib/plot' );
var dataset = require( '@stdlib/datasets-berndt-cps-wages-1985' );

var data;
var plot;
var opts;
var x;
var y;
var i;

data = dataset();

// Extract wage data...
x = [];
y = [];
for ( i = 0; i < data.length; i++ ) {
    x.push( data[ i ].age );
    y.push( data[ i ].wage );
}

// Create a plot instance:
opts = {
    'lineStyle': 'none',
    'symbols': 'closed-circle',
    'xLabel': 'Age',
    'yLabel': 'Wage',
    'title': 'Age vs Wage'
};
plot = new Plot( [ x ], [ y ], opts );

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CLI

Installation

To use as a general utility, install the CLI package globally

npm install -g @stdlib/datasets-berndt-cps-wages-1985-cli

Usage

Usage: berndt-cps-wages-1985 [options]

Options:

  -h,    --help                Print this message.
  -V,    --version             Print the package version.
         --format fmt          Output format: 'csv' or 'ndjson'.

Notes

• The CLI supports two output formats: comma-separated values (CSV) and newline-delimited JSON (NDJSON). The default output format is CSV.

Examples

$ berndt-cps-wages-1985
education,south,gender,experience,union,wage,age,race,occupation,sector,married
8,0,female,21,1,5.1,35,hispanic,other,manufacturing,0
9,0,female,42,1,4.95,57,white,other,manufacturing,0
12,0,male,1,1,6.67,19,white,other,manufacturing,1
12,0,male,4,1,4,22,white,other,other,1
12,0,male,17,1,7.5,35,white,other,other,0
...

References

• Berndt, Ernst R. 1991. The Practice of Econometrics. Addison Wesley Longman Publishing Co.

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License

The data files (databases) are licensed under an Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication & License 1.0 and their contents are licensed under Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal. The software is licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0.

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