Bfox {car}R Documentation

Canadian Women's Labour-Force Participation

Description

The Bfox data frame has 30 rows and 7 columns. Time-series data on Canadian women's labor-force participation, 1946–1975.

Usage

Bfox

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

partic
Percent of adult women in the workforce.
tfr
Total fertility rate: expected births to a cohort of 1000 women at current age-specific fertility rates.
menwage
Men's average weekly wages, in constant 1935 dollars and adjusted for current tax rates.
womwage
Women's average weekly wages.
debt
Per-capita consumer debt, in constant dollars.
parttime
Percent of the active workforce working 34 hours per week or less.

Warning

The value of tfr for 1973 is misrecorded as 2931; it should be 1931.

Source

Fox, B. (1980) Women's Domestic Labour and their Involvement in Wage Work. Unpublished doctoral dissertation [p. 449].

References

Fox, J. (1997) Applied Regression, Linear Models, and Related Methods. Sage.


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