Statistical Analysis Write Up 3

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 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