Statistics-200: Descriptive Statistics Data Analysis (Plan)

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Dataset for Written Assignments

Description of Dataset:

The data is a random sample from the US Department of Labor’s 2016 Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CE) and provides information about the composition of households and their annual expenditures (https://www.bls.gov/cex/). It contains information from 30 households, where a survey responder provided the requested information; it is all self-reported information. This dataset contains four socioeconomic variables (whose names start with SE) and four expenditure variables (whose names start with USD).

Description of Variables/Data Dictionary:

The following table is a data dictionary that describes the variables and their locations in this dataset (Note: Dataset is on second page of this document):

Variable Name	Location in Dataset	Variable Description	Coding
UniqueID#	First Column	Unique number used to identify each survey responder	Each responder has a unique number from 1-30
SE-MaritalStatus	Second Column	Marital Status of Head of Household	Not Married/Married
SE-Income	Third Column	Annual Household Income	Amount in US Dollars
SE-AgeHeadHousehold	Fourth Column	Age of the Head of Household	Age in Years
SE-FamilySize	Fifth Column	Total Number of People in Family (Both Adults and Children)	Number of People in Family
USD-Annual Expenditures	Sixth Column	Total Amount of Annual Expenditures	Amount in US Dollars
USD-Food	Seventh Column	Total Amount of Annual Expenditure on Food	Amount in US Dollars
USD-Entertainment	Eighth Column	Total Amount of Annual Expenditure on Entertainment	Amount in US Dollars
USD-Education	Ninth Column	Total Amount of Annual Expenditure on Education	Amount in US Dollars

How to read the data set: Each row contains information from one household. For instance, the first row of the dataset starting on the next page shows us that: the head of household is not married and is 52 years old, has an annual household income of $95,744, a family size of 4, annual expenditures of $55,963, and spends $7,040 on food, $105 on entertainment, and $340 on education.

UniqueID#	SE-MaritalStatus	SE-Income	SE-AgeHeadHousehold	SE-FamilySize	USD-AnnualExpenditures	USD-Food	USD-Entertainment	USD-Education
1	Not Married	95744	52	4	55963	7040	105	340
2	Not Married	95432	51	1	55120	7089	84	274
3	Not Married	96727	39	2	56440	7051	93	222
4	Not Married	96621	54	2	55746	7000	106	322
5	Not Married	96572	59	2	56515	7179	95	349
6	Not Married	98717	40	3	56393	7036	106	213
7	Not Married	96697	49	2	56453	6971	86	186
8	Not Married	96653	51	4	56488	6943	90	212
9	Not Married	97912	49	1	55704	6937	97	277
10	Not Married	96928	43	3	55932	6953	105	273
11	Not Married	96244	56	4	56051	7073	114	261
12	Not Married	97681	53	4	56124	7097	108	263
13	Not Married	96522	43	4	56152	6991	101	237
14	Not Married	95366	48	2	57082	7130	90	305
15	Not Married	94867	60	1	55512	6935	87	272
16	Married	108781	52	5	83231	11795	178	689
17	Married	95706	52	4	71597	8925	121	475
18	Married	106627	56	3	82676	10363	179	794
19	Married	97303	27	4	76134	8634	22	16
20	Married	97663	51	3	72971	9294	108	454
21	Married	100947	35	4	73973	8455	96	2
22	Married	100837	42	5	73849	8633	209	53
23	Married	93901	43	2	74254	9157	132	468
24	Married	100964	28	2	77744	9397	174	11
25	Married	95385	50	4	74110	9101	119	454
26	Married	95994	55	4	73404	9231	150	468
27	Married	103144	29	5	75393	8902	163	36
28	Married	111478	29	5	82699	10740	82	334
29	Married	95865	46	1	74789	9321	133	478
30	Married	114932	44	5	81186	11077	80	111