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 Each responder has a unique
responder 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 Number of People in Family
and Children)
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 Amount in US Dollars
Transportation

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