Canadian Women's Labour-Force Participation

Description

The Womenlf data frame has 263 rows and 4 columns. The data are from a 1977 survey of the Canadian population.

Usage

Womenlf

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

partic

Labour-Force Participation. A factor with levels (note: out of order): fulltime, Working full-time; not.work, Not working outside the home; parttime, Working part-time.

hincome

Husband's income, $1000s.

children

Presence of children in the household. A factor with levels: absent, present.

region

A factor with levels: Atlantic, Atlantic Canada; BC, British Columbia; Ontario; Prairie, Prairie provinces; Quebec.

Source

Social Change in Canada Project. York Institute for Social Research.

References

Fox, J. (2008) Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models, Second Edition. Sage.

Fox, J. and Weisberg, S. (2011) An R Companion to Applied Regression, Second Edition, Sage.