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STAT200 Introduction to Statistics

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 40 years old, has an annual household income of $98,717, a family size of 3, annual expenditures of $56,393, and spends $7,036 on food, $106 on entertainment, and $213 on education.

UniqueID#

SE-MaritalStatus

SE-Income

SE-AgeHeadHousehold

SE-FamilySize

USD-AnnualExpenditures

USD-Food

USD-Entertainment

USD-Education

1

Not Married

98717

40

3

56393

7036

106

213

2

Not Married

96572

59

2

56515

7179

95

349

3

Not Married

96690

57

2

56097

6822

88

252

4

Not Married

96664

53

3

55558

7051

83

295

5

Not Married

96886

44

2

55321

6982

79

312

6

Not Married

96522

43

4

56152

6991

101

237

7

Not Married

97912

49

1

55704

6937

97

277

8

Not Married

96727

39

2

56440

7051

93

222

9

Not Married

96928

43

3

55932

6953

105

273

10

Not Married

95744

52

4

55963

7040

105

340

11

Not Married

97681

53

4

56124

7097

108

263

12

Not Married

95432

51

1

55120

7089

84

274

13

Not Married

94929

59

2

55247

6948

97

236

14

Not Married

96621

54

2

55746

7000

106

322

15

Not Married

95366

48

2

57082

7130

90

305

16

Married

101829

45

4

82385

10821

201

810

17

Married

98309

51

2

75776

9118

117

477

18

Married

112559

39

3

80934

11189

51

386

19

Married

106894

51

5

81585

11360

185

682

20

Married

98686

51

3

73563

9298

132

455

21

Married

103422

36

4

80005

10616

38

378

22

Married

100964

28

2

77744

9397

174

11

23

Married

95835

54

3

73092

9111

117

476

24

Married

102326

32

3

74202

8844

96

45

25

Married

106627

56

3

82676

10363

179

794

26

Married

95922

55

3

72228

9302

135

472

27

Married

95975

41

3

73114

8922

131

463

28

Married

99610

36

2

73550

9513

158

37

29

Married

114505

36

5

78325

11375

60

482

30

Married

106977

56

3

79358

10611

109

311