stat200 assignment #2

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-AnnualExpenditures 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-Housing Eighth Column Total Amount of Annual Expenditure on Housing Amount in US Dollars USD-Transport Ninth Column Total Amount of Annual Expenditure on

Transportation 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 for the first household in the sample: the head of household is not married and is 35 years old, has an annual household income is $97,469, has a family size of 4, annual expenditures of $54,929, and spends $6,900 on food, $18,514 on housing, and $145 on transportation.

UniqueID# SE-MaritalStatus SE-Income SE-AgeHeadHousehold SE-FamilySize USD-AnnualExpenditures USD-Food USD-Housing USD-Transport 1 Not Married 97469 35 4 54929 6900 18514 145 2 Not Married 97912 49 1 55704 6937 18619 152 3 Not Married 96697 49 2 56453 6971 18520 136 4 Not Married 96653 51 4 56488 6943 18838 124 5 Not Married 96664 53 3 55558 7051 18502 168 6 Not Married 95744 52 4 55963 7040 18435 146 7 Not Married 94929 59 2 55247 6948 18483 133 8 Not Married 96928 43 3 55932 6953 18701 145 9 Not Married 97681 53 4 56124 7097 18676 134

10 Not Married 96244 56 4 56051 7073 18484 141 11 Not Married 96886 44 2 55321 6982 18312 153 12 Not Married 96727 39 2 56440 7051 18376 120 13 Not Married 96690 57 2 56097 6822 18334 135 14 Not Married 96572 59 2 56515 7179 18648 123 15 Not Married 98717 40 3 56393 7036 18389 114 16 Married 106292 57 4 82299 10983 23063 132 17 Married 95801 54 3 73798 9395 23155 151 18 Married 95385 50 4 74110 9101 22847 211 19 Married 95865 46 1 74789 9321 22621 168 20 Married 109312 37 6 80801 10564 25392 58 21 Married 114051 42 5 84486 10820 25728 167 22 Married 110651 58 4 83766 11226 22899 113 23 Married 107338 67 2 83651 11710 21893 47 24 Married 101829 45 4 82385 10821 22409 121 25 Married 102244 34 4 74687 8735 27964 60 26 Married 113558 31 5 79861 10346 25006 141 27 Married 100947 35 4 73973 8455 26783 36 28 Married 107369 66 2 83441 11724 23174 82 29 Married 106894 51 5 81585 11360 22396 162 30 Married 97769 47 5 73950 9035 22867 202