On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the prminwge data set which pertains to prminwge. The prminwge data set is found in the wooldridge R package. You can load the prminwge data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("prminwge"). This will load the data into a variable called prminwge. If R says the prminwge 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 prminwge R data set. The size of this file is about 15,012 bytes.

prminwge

Description

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

Usage

data(prminwge)

Format

A data.frame with 38 rows and 25 variables:

• year. 1950-1987

• avgmin. weighted avg min wge, 44 indust

• avgwage. wghted avg hrly wge, 44 indust

• kaitz. Kaitz min wage index

• avgcov. wghted avg coverage, 8 indust

• covt. economy-wide coverage of min wg

• mfgwage. avg manuf. wage

• prdef. Puerto Rican price deflator

• prepop. PR employ/popul ratio

• prepopf. PR employ/popul ratio, alter.

• prgnp. PR GNP

• prunemp. PR unemployment rate

• usgnp. US GNP

• t. time trend: 1 to 38

• post74. time trend: starts in 1974

• lprunemp. log(prunemp)

• lprgnp. log(prgnp)

• lusgnp. log(usgnp)

• lkaitz. log(kaitz)

• lprun_1. lprunemp[_n-1]

• lprepop. log(prepop)

• lprep_1. lprepop[_n-1]

• mincov. (avgmin/avgwage)*avgcov

• lmincov. log(mincov)

• lavgmin. log(avgmin)

Source

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

Examples

 str(prminwge)

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