nlsw88 dataset

NLSW, 1988 extract

National Longitudinal Surveys, Women sample data

data(nlsw88)

Format

A data frame with 2246 observations on the following 17 variables:

• idcode: a numeric vector, NLS id
• age: a numeric vector, age at current year
• race: a numeric vector, race
• married: a numeric vector
• never_married: a numeric vector
• grade: a numeric vector, current grade completed
• collgrad: a numeric vector, college graduate
• south: a numeric vector, lives in south
• smsa: a numeric vector, lives in SMSA
• c_city: a numeric vector, lives in central city
• industry: a numeric vector
• occupation: a numeric vector
• union: a numeric vector, union worker
• wage: a numeric vector, hourly wage
• hours: a numeric vector, usual hours worked
• ttl_exp: a numeric vector, total work experience
• tenure: a numeric vector, job tenure(years)

Details

The NLSW88 data contains data of a group of women in their 30s and early 40s to study labor force patterns.

Source

Stata website

References

Stata website: http://www.stata-press.com/data/r10/g.html

Examples

data(nlsw88)
attach(nlsw88) 
plot(wage,tenure)