US family income from US census 2008
US census data on family income from 2008
data(income)
A data frame with 44 observations on the following 4 variables.
valuelower boundary of the income group
countNumber of families within that income group
meanMean of the category
propproportion of families
The distribution of income is a nice example of a log normal distribution. It is also an interesting example of the power of graphics. It is quite clear when graphing the data that income statistics are bunched to the nearest 5K. That is, there is a clear sawtooth pattern in the data.
The all.income set is interpolates intervening values for 100-150K, 150-200K and 200-250K
US Census: Table HINC-06. Income Distribution to $250,000 or More for Households: 2008
https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/032009/hhinc/new06_000.htm
data(income)
with(income[1:40,], plot(mean,prop, main="US family income for 2008",xlab="income",
ylab="Proportion of families",xlim=c(0,100000)))
with (income[1:40,], points(lowess(mean,prop,f=.3),typ="l"))
psych::describe(income)
with(all.income, plot(mean,prop, main="US family income for 2008",xlab="income",
ylab="Proportion of families",xlim=c(0,250000)))
with (all.income[1:50,], points(lowess(mean,prop,f=.25),typ="l"))Please choose more modern alternatives, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.