Package 'UsingR' - The Comprehensive R Archive Network

42 female.incfemale.inc Income distribution for females in 2001DescriptionA data set containing incomes for 1,000 females along with race information. The data is sampledfrom data provided by the United States Census Bureau.Usagedata(female.inc)FormatA data frame with 1,000 observations on the following 2 variables.income Income for 2001 in dollarsrace a factor with levels black, hispanic or whiteDetailsThe United States Census Bureau provides alot of data on income distributions. This data comesfrom the Current Population Survey (CPS) for the year 2001. The raw data appears in table format.This data is sampled from the data in that table.SourceThe original table is found at http://ferret.bls.census.gov/macro/032002/perinc/new11_002.htm.Examplesdata(female.inc)boxplot(income ~ race, female.inc)boxplot(log(income,10) ~ race, female.inc)sapply(with(female.inc,split(income,race)),median)