Earnings of workers at a trucking company.

Source: R/Trucking_jobs.R

A dataset from a mid-western US trucking company on annual earnings of its employees in 2007. Datasets like this are used in audits by the Federal Government to look for signs of discrimination.

data(Trucking_jobs)

Format

A data frame Trucking_jobs with 129 rows and 11 variables.

  • sex The employee's sex: M or F

  • earnings Annual earnings, in dollars. Hourly wages have been converted to a full-time basis.

  • age The employee's age, in years.

  • title The employee's job title.

  • hiredyears How long the employee has been working for the company.

Examples

mod_1 = lm(earnings ~ age + hiredyears + sex, data = Trucking_jobs)