Statistical Analysis : Household Incomes Introduction The objective of this analysis is to obtain meaningful
Statistical Analysis : Household Incomes
Introduction
The objective of this analysis is to obtain meaningful descriptive statistics with the 50,000+ cases obtained from the Bureau of Labor Statistics dataset. This dataset includes the following variables
ID: Identification variable (Nominal variable)
AGE: Age in years (Ratio variable)
EDUC: Education level (1 = Lower than HS, 2 = Some HS, 3 = HS, 4 = some college but not bachelor’s degree, 5 = Bachelor’s degree, 6 = Postgraduate) (Ordinal variable)
SEX: Gender of the subject (1 = Male, 2 = Female) (Nominal variable)
EARNINGS = Amount earned in $1000’s (Ratio variable)
JOB = Type of Job (5 = Private sector, 6 = Government, 7 = Self-Employed) (Nominal Variable)
Descriptive statistics
The following descriptive statistics and histogram are obtained for the variable EARNINGS:
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