R: Parade Magazine 2005 Earnings Data

Parade2005 {AER} | R Documentation

## Parade Magazine 2005 Earnings Data

### Description

US earnings data, as provided in an annual survey of Parade (here from 2005), the Sunday newspaper magazine supplementing the Sunday (or Weekend) edition of many daily newspapers in the USA.

### Usage

    data("Parade2005")

### Format

A data frame containing 130 observations on 5 variables.

earnings

  Annual personal earnings.

age

  Age in years.

gender

  Factor indicating gender.

state

  Factor indicating state.

celebrity

  Factor. Is the individual a celebrity?

### Details

In addition to the four variables provided by Parade (earnings, age, gender, and state), a fifth variable was introduced, the “celebrity factor” (here actors, athletes, TV personalities, politicians, and CEOs are considered celebrities). The data are quite far from a simple random sample, there being substantial oversampling of celebrities.

### Source

Parade (2005). What People Earn. Issue March 13, 2005.

### Examples

    ## data
    data("Parade2005")
    attach(Parade2005)
    summary(Parade2005)

    ## bivariate visualizations
    plot(density(log(earnings), bw = "SJ"), type = "l", main = "log(earnings)")
    rug(log(earnings))
    plot(log(earnings) ~ gender, main = "log(earnings)")

    ## celebrity vs. non-celebrity earnings
    noncel <- subset(Parade2005, celebrity == "no")
    cel <- subset(Parade2005, celebrity == "yes")

    library("ineq")
    plot(Lc(noncel$earnings), main = "log(earnings)")
    lines(Lc(cel$earnings), lty = 2)
    lines(Lc(earnings), lty = 3)

    Gini(noncel$earnings)
    Gini(cel$earnings)
    Gini(earnings)

    ## detach data
    detach(Parade2005)

[Package AER version 1.2-5 Index]