On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the minwage data set which pertains to minwage. The minwage data set is found in the wooldridge R package. You can load the minwage data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("minwage"). This will load the data into a variable called minwage. If R says the minwage data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("wooldridge") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the minwage R data set. The size of this file is about 455,337 bytes.

minwage

Description

Data loads lazily. Type data(minwage) into the console.

Usage

data(minwage)

Format

A data.frame with 612 rows and 58 variables:

• emp232. employment, sector 232, 1000s

• wage232. hourly wage, sector 232, $

• emp236.

• wage236.

• emp234.

• wage234.

• emp314.

• wage314.

• emp228.

• wage228.

• emp233.

• wage233.

• emp394.

• wage394.

• emp231.

• wage231.

• emp226.

• wage226.

• emp387.

• wage387.

• emp056.

• wage056.

• unem. civilian unemployment rate, percent

• cpi. Consumer Price Index (urban), 1982-1984 = 100

• minwage. Federal minimum wage, $/hour

• lemp232. log(emp232)

• lwage232. log(wage232)

• gemp232. lemp232 - lemp232[_n-1]

• gwage232. lwage232 - lwage232[_n-1]

• lminwage. log(minwage)

• gmwage. lminwage - lminwage[_n-1]

• gmwage_1. gmwage[_n-1]

• gmwage_2.

• gmwage_3.

• gmwage_4.

• gmwage_5.

• gmwage_6.

• gmwage_7.

• gmwage_8.

• gmwage_9.

• gmwage_10.

• gmwage_11.

• gmwage_12.

• lemp236.

• gcpi. lcpi - lcpi[_n-1]

• lcpi. log(cpi)

• lwage236.

• gemp236.

• gwage236.

• lemp234.

• lwage234.

• gemp234.

• gwage234.

• lemp314.

• lwage314.

• gemp314.

• gwage314.

• t. linear time trend, 1 to 612

Source

https://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781111531041

Examples

 str(minwage)

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.