Statistics-200: Descriptive Statistics Data Analysis (Plan)

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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 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