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data('saving')

Format

A data.frame with 100 observations on 7 variables:

  • sav: annual savings, $

  • inc: annual income, $

  • size: family size

  • educ: years educ, household head

  • age: age of household head

  • black: =1 if household head is black

  • cons: annual consumption, $

Notes

I remember entering this data set in the late 1980s, and I am pretty sure it came directly from an introductory econometrics text. But so far my search has been fruitless. If anyone runs across this data set, I would appreciate knowing about it.

Used in Text: not used

Examples

 str(saving)
#> 'data.frame':	100 obs. of  7 variables:
#>  $ sav  : int  30 874 370 1200 275 1400 3159 1766 3984 1017 ...
#>  $ inc  : int  1920 12403 6396 7005 6990 6500 26007 15363 14999 9185 ...
#>  $ size : int  4 4 2 3 4 4 5 5 5 5 ...
#>  $ educ : int  2 9 17 9 12 13 17 16 9 16 ...
#>  $ age  : int  40 33 31 50 28 33 36 44 48 31 ...
#>  $ black: int  1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 ...
#>  $ cons : int  1890 11529 6026 5805 6715 5100 22848 13597 11015 8168 ...
#>  - attr(*, "time.stamp")= chr "25 Jun 2011 23:03"