trade.union {}R Documentation

Trade union data

Description

The trade.union data frame has data on 534 U.S. workers.

Usage

data(trade.union)

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

years.educ
number of years of education.
south
indicator of living in southern region of U.S.A.
female
gender indicator: 0=male,1=female.
years.experience
number of years of work experience
union.member
indicator of trade union membership: 0=non-member, 1=member.
wage
wages in dollars per hour.
age
age in years.
race
1=black, 2=Hispanic, 3=white.
occupation
1=management, 2=sales, 3=clerical, 4=service, 5=professional, 6=other.
sector
0=other, 1=manufacturing, 2=construction.
married
indicator of being married: 0=unmarried, 1=married.

Source

Berndt, E.R. (1991) The Practice of Econometrics. New York: Addison-Wesley.

References

Ruppert, D., Wand, M.P. and Carroll, R.J. (2003)
Semiparametric Regression Cambridge University Press.
http://stat.tamu.edu/~carroll/semiregbook/

Examples

library(SemiPar)
data(trade.union)
pairs(trade.union,pch=".")

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