Re: Employee data.sav: When was the data collected?
Posted by
Rick Oliver on
Jan 17, 2020; 3:34am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Employee-data-sav-When-was-the-data-collected-tp5738785p5738786.html
It is essentially fake data, although based on real data. It does not stand up well to close scrutiny. It's based on data used in lawsuit. I think the income numbers were already a little outdated when I joined SPSS in 1989. At some point we bumped up the values, and we may have updated the age values at the same time, while also changing some values to make more interesting relationships.
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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