Employee data.sav: When was the data collected?

Posted by Bruce Weaver on Jan 16, 2020; 7:55pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Employee-data-sav-When-was-the-data-collected-tp5738785.html

Short version of the question:  Does anyone know what year the data in the
"Employee data.sav" sample file were gathered?  


Now here's the longer version.

Here is a listing of the first 10 records from "Employee data.sav", one of
the sample files that comes with (or at least used to come with) SPSS:

  id gender      bdate educ jobcat   salary salbegin jobtime prevexp
minority
 
   1 m      02/03/1952  15     3    $57,000  $27,000    98       144     0
   2 m      05/23/1958  16     1    $40,200  $18,750    98        36     0
   3 f      07/26/1929  12     1    $21,450  $12,000    98       381     0
   4 f      04/15/1947   8     1    $21,900  $13,200    98       190     0
   5 m      02/09/1955  15     1    $45,000  $21,000    98       138     0
   6 m      08/22/1958  15     1    $32,100  $13,500    98        67     0
   7 m      04/26/1956  15     1    $36,000  $18,750    98       114     0
   8 f      05/06/1966  12     1    $21,900   $9,750    98         0     0
   9 f      01/23/1946  15     1    $27,900  $12,750    98       115     0
  10 f      02/13/1946  12     1    $24,000  $13,500    98       244     0

I am considering using it for a class exercise, and if I do, I would like to
have the students compute an age variable.  Birth date is given, but I don't
know when the data were gathered.  I used SYSFILE INFO to find the file
creation date, which appears to be 24-Jan-2012.  But when I use that value
to compute age, I get ages ranging from 40 to 82 with a mean of about 55.
Those ages are higher than I expected.  I could always just knock 20 years
off and say that the data were gathered in 1992.  But it would be nice to
have the actual date if anyone knows it.  

Cheers,
Bruce




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