Incomes of United Kingdom Citizens

Description

The incomeUK array has 7201 incomes of United Kingdom citizens for the year 1975. The data have been divided by average income.

Usage

data(incomeUK)

Format

Each entry of the array is the ratio of the income of a British citizen and the average income of the sample.

Source

The Economic and Social Research Council Data Archive at the University of Essex, United Kingdom, Family Expenditure Survey, Annual Tapes, 1968-1983, Department of Employment, Statistics Division, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London.

Examples

data(incomeUK) 
hist(incomeUK,breaks = 100,col = "gold")
library(KernSmooth)
selectedBandwidth <- dpik(incomeUK)
densEst <- bkde(incomeUK,bandwidth = selectedBandwidth,range.x = c(0,5))
plot(densEst,col = "blue",lwd = 2,type = "l",xlab = "income (multiple of average)",
     ylab = "density")
rug(incomeUK,col = "red")
abline(h = 0,col = "green3")