A data set containing data on work, salary, and education from the 2014 General Social Survey. Missing data are explicitly identified with NAs and all data are represented as factors when appropriate.
data(gss14)A data frame with 2538 rows and 19 variables:
GSS year for this respondent
Total family income (2006 version)
Rs family income when 16 yrs old
Region of residence, age 16
Race of respondent
Respondents sex
Spouses highest degree
Mothers highest degree
Fathers highest degree
Rs highest degree
Number of children
Spouse self-emp. or works for somebody
Number of hrs spouse worked last week
Marital status
R self-emp or works for somebody
Number of hours worked last week
Labor force status
Respondent id number
Ballot used for interview
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str(gss14)
#> 'data.frame': 2538 obs. of 19 variables:
#> $ YEAR : int 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 ...
#> $ INCOME06: Factor w/ 25 levels "Under $1 000",..: 21 25 18 25 NA 25 NA 21 11 22 ...
#> $ INCOM16 : Factor w/ 5 levels "Far below average",..: 2 3 2 2 4 4 2 3 3 1 ...
#> $ REG16 : Factor w/ 10 levels "Foreign","New england",..: 3 3 2 3 3 2 3 10 3 3 ...
#> $ RACE : Factor w/ 3 levels "White","Black",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 ...
#> $ SEX : Factor w/ 2 levels "Male","Female": 1 2 1 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 ...
#> $ SPDEG : Factor w/ 6 levels "-1","Lt high school",..: NA 5 NA 5 3 4 2 6 NA 3 ...
#> $ MADEG : Factor w/ 5 levels "Lt high school",..: 1 3 2 2 5 2 NA 2 1 1 ...
#> $ PADEG : Factor w/ 5 levels "Lt high school",..: NA 4 NA 2 1 4 1 2 NA NA ...
#> $ DEGREE : Factor w/ 5 levels "Lt high school",..: 4 4 2 4 4 4 2 5 1 3 ...
#> $ CHILDS : Factor w/ 9 levels "0","1","2","3",..: 1 1 2 3 4 2 3 3 5 4 ...
#> $ SPWRKSLF: Factor w/ 2 levels "Self-employed",..: NA 2 NA 2 2 1 NA 2 NA 2 ...
#> $ SPHRS1 : int NA 75 NA 40 NA 60 NA 60 NA 60 ...
#> $ MARITAL : Factor w/ 5 levels "Married","Widowed",..: 3 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 5 1 ...
#> $ WRKSLF : Factor w/ 2 levels "Self-employed",..: 1 2 2 2 2 1 NA 2 NA 2 ...
#> $ HRS1 : int 60 40 NA 20 NA 60 NA 40 NA 55 ...
#> $ WRKSTAT : Factor w/ 8 levels "Working fulltime",..: 1 1 4 2 5 1 NA 1 8 1 ...
#> $ ID_ : int 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
#> $ BALLOT : Factor w/ 3 levels "Ballot a","Ballot b",..: 3 3 1 2 3 1 2 2 3 3 ...
head(gss14)
#> YEAR INCOME06 INCOM16 REG16 RACE SEX
#> 1 2014 $75000 to $89999 Below average Middle atlantic White Male
#> 2 2014 $150000 or over Average Middle atlantic White Female
#> 3 2014 $40000 to 49999 Below average New england White Male
#> 4 2014 $150000 or over Below average Middle atlantic White Female
#> 5 2014 <NA> Above average Middle atlantic White Female
#> 6 2014 $150000 or over Above average New england White Female
#> SPDEG MADEG PADEG DEGREE CHILDS SPWRKSLF
#> 1 <NA> Lt high school <NA> Bachelor 0 <NA>
#> 2 Bachelor Junior college Bachelor Bachelor 0 Someone else
#> 3 <NA> High school <NA> High school 1 <NA>
#> 4 Bachelor High school High school Bachelor 2 Someone else
#> 5 High school Graduate Lt high school Bachelor 3 Someone else
#> 6 Junior college High school Bachelor Bachelor 1 Self-employed
#> SPHRS1 MARITAL WRKSLF HRS1 WRKSTAT ID_ BALLOT
#> 1 NA Divorced Self-employed 60 Working fulltime 1 Ballot c
#> 2 75 Married Someone else 40 Working fulltime 2 Ballot c
#> 3 NA Divorced Someone else NA Unempl, laid off 3 Ballot a
#> 4 40 Married Someone else 20 Working parttime 4 Ballot b
#> 5 NA Married Someone else NA Retired 5 Ballot c
#> 6 60 Married Self-employed 60 Working fulltime 6 Ballot a