The data file cps85.dat , see Berndt (1991), contains an extract of the May 1985 U.S. Current Population Survey (CPS) with 534 observations.
Column | Type | Description |
1 | metric | years of education |
2 | binary | 1 if lives in south |
3 | binary | 1 if nonwhite |
4 | binary | 1 if Hispanic |
5 | binary | 1 if female |
6 | binary | 1 if married with spouse present (in household) |
7 | binary | 1 if married female with spouse present |
8 | metric | years of labor market experience
(= age-education-6, minimum = 0 imposed ex post) |
9 | metric | years of labor market experience squared |
10 | binary | 1 if working on a union job |
11 | metric | natural logarithm of average hourly earnings |
12 | metric | age in years |
13 | binary | 1 if working in manufacturing industry |
14 | binary | 1 if working in construction industry |
15 | binary | 1 if occupation is managerial or administrative |
16 | binary | 1 if occupation is sales worker |
17 | binary | 1 if occupation is clerical worker |
18 | binary | 1 if occupation is service worker |
19 | binary | 1 if occupation is professional/technical worker |