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Income
yfam74 Total earnings of graduate and spouse last year yrer74 Graduate's total earnings last year alyr74 Flag for graduate's total earnings last year yrwg74 - yrfr74 Graduate's detailed earnings by source yser74 Spouse's total earnings last year. alys74 Flag for spouse's total earnings last year yswg74 - ysfr74 Spouse's detailed earnings by source Imputed data for a subset of variables in this module are available in "Ancillary Data: Economic Imputations"
yfam74: Total earnings in $100's of graduate and spouse last year.
Data source: Graduate Respondent
Collected in: 1975
Mode: phone
Source variables: 58, 59c, 60c, 103, 104c, 105c
Frequencies | ||||
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Value | Label | Male | Female | Total |
-3 | NOT ASCERTAINED OR NONRESPONDENT | 680 | 523 | 1203 |
0 | LESS THAN $100 | 242 | 502 | 744 |
1 - 110 | 636 | 1073 | 1709 | |
111 - 144 | 859 | 816 | 1675 | |
145 - 175 | 901 | 776 | 1677 | |
176 - 222 | 825 | 851 | 1676 | |
223 - 1650 | 848 | 785 | 1633 |
(YRER74) and spouse's total earnings (YSER74). For information about
missing data for various components of this variable see the notes to
variables YRER74 and YSER74 and the missing data flags for YRER74
(ALYR74) and YSER74 (ALYS74).
An imputed version of this variable is available in:
"Ancillary Data: Economic Imputations"
yrer74: Graduate's total earnings in $100's last year.
Data source: Graduate Respondent
Collected in: 1975
Mode: phone
Source variables: 58, 59c, 60c
Frequencies | ||||
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Value | Label | Male | Female | Total |
-3 | NOT ASCERTAINED OR NONRESPONDENT | 681 | 523 | 1204 |
0 | LESS THAN $100 | 273 | 2129 | 2402 |
1 - 40 | 61 | 1371 | 1432 | |
41 - 99 | 460 | 889 | 1349 | |
100 - 130 | 1090 | 275 | 1365 | |
131 - 175 | 1248 | 109 | 1357 | |
176 - 1650 | 1178 | 30 | 1208 |
This variable represents the sum of all valid components of
earnings, even if there was missing data for one or two components.
Those with missing data on all components were coded -3. See ALYR74.
An imputed version of this variable is available in:
"Ancillary Data: Economic Imputations"
alyr74: Missing data flag for graduate's total earnings last year.
Data source: Graduate Respondent
Collected in: 1975
Mode: phone
Source variables: 58, 59c, 60c
Frequencies | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Value | Label | Male | Female | Total |
-3 | NOT ASCERTAINED OR NONRESPONDENT | 661 | 518 | 1179 |
0 | No missing data | 4023 | 4543 | 8566 |
1 | Missing data for wages and salary | 148 | 174 | 322 |
2 | Missing data for self-employed earnings | 56 | 55 | 111 |
3 | Missing data for farm earnings | 24 | 17 | 41 |
4 | Missing data for wages, salary and self-employed earnings | 51 | 13 | 64 |
5 | Missing data for wages, salary and farm earnings | 5 | 1 | 6 |
6 | Missing data for self-employed earnings and farm earnings | 3 | 0 | 3 |
7 | Missing data for all three components of earnings | 20 | 5 | 25 |
yrwg74: Graduate's wages and salaries in $100's last year.
Data source: Graduate Respondent
Collected in: 1975
Mode: phone
Source variables: 58
Frequencies | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Value | Label | Male | Female | Total |
-3 | NOT ASCERTAINED OR NONRESPONDENT | 857 | 582 | 1439 |
-1 | DON'T KNOW | 28 | 129 | 157 |
0 | LESS THAN $100 | 369 | 2070 | 2439 |
1 - 39 | 54 | 1209 | 1263 | |
40 - 91 | 353 | 906 | 1259 | |
92 - 130 | 1147 | 312 | 1459 | |
131 - 172 | 1165 | 94 | 1259 | |
173 - 1020 | 1018 | 24 | 1042 |
"Ancillary Data: Economic Imputations"
yrse74: Graduate's self-employed nonfarm earnings in $100's last year.
Data source: Graduate Respondent
Collected in: 1975
Mode: phone
Source variables: 59c
Frequencies | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Value | Label | Male | Female | Total |
-3 | NOT ASCERTAINED OR NONRESPONDENT | 752 | 544 | 1296 |
-1 | DON'T KNOW | 39 | 47 | 86 |
0 | LESS THAN $100 | 3611 | 4529 | 8140 |
1 - 6 | 88 | 74 | 162 | |
7 - 20 | 129 | 52 | 181 | |
21 - 70 | 109 | 55 | 164 | |
71 - 200 | 155 | 21 | 176 | |
210 - 1400 | 108 | 4 | 112 |
"Ancillary Data: Economic Imputations"
yrfr74: Graduate's farm earnings in $100's last year.
Data source: Graduate Respondent
Collected in: 1975
Mode: phone
Source variables: 60c
Frequencies | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Value | Label | Male | Female | Total |
-3 | NOT ASCERTAINED OR NONRESPONDENT | 690 | 525 | 1215 |
-1 | DON'T KNOW | 23 | 16 | 39 |
0 | LESS THAN $100 | 4081 | 4745 | 8826 |
1 - 10 | 43 | 15 | 58 | |
11 - 40 | 39 | 15 | 54 | |
42 - 75 | 39 | 8 | 47 | |
76 - 146 | 45 | 2 | 47 | |
150 - 800 | 31 | 0 | 31 |
"Ancillary Data: Economic Imputations"
yser74: Spouse's total earnings in $100's last year.
Data source: Graduate Respondent
Collected in: 1975
Mode: phone
Source variables: 103, 104, 104c, 105, 105c
Frequencies | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Value | Label | Male | Female | Total |
-3 | NOT ASCERTAINED OR NONRESPONDENT | 685 | 548 | 1233 |
-2 | 492 | 589 | 1081 | |
0 | LESS THAN $100 | 2060 | 557 | 2617 |
1 - 40 | 1018 | 69 | 1087 | |
41 - 100 | 581 | 685 | 1266 | |
101 - 140 | 119 | 1062 | 1181 | |
141 - 200 | 30 | 1229 | 1259 | |
201 - 1250 | 6 | 587 | 593 |
earnings, even if there was missing data for one or two components.
Those with missing data on all components were coded -3. See ALYS74.
An imputed version of this variable is available in:
"Ancillary Data: Economic Imputations"
alys74: Missing data flag for total earnings of spouse.
Data source: Graduate Respondent
Collected in: 1975
Mode: phone
Source variables: 103, 104, 104c, 105, 105c
Frequencies | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Value | Label | Male | Female | Total |
-3 | NOT ASCERTAINED OR NONRESPONDENT | 661 | 518 | 1179 |
-2 | 492 | 589 | 1081 | |
0 | No missing data | 3655 | 3487 | 7142 |
1 | Missing data for wages and salary | 87 | 287 | 374 |
2 | Missing data for self-employed earnings | 24 | 190 | 214 |
3 | Missing data for farm earnings | 30 | 104 | 134 |
4 | Missing data for wages, salary and self-employed earnings | 9 | 85 | 94 |
5 | Missing data for wages, salary and farm earnings | 1 | 16 | 17 |
6 | Missing data for self-employed earnings and farm earnings | 8 | 20 | 28 |
7 | Missing data for all three components of earnings | 24 | 30 | 54 |
yswg74: Spouse's wages and salary earnings in $100's last year.
Data source: Graduate Respondent
Collected in: 1975
Mode: phone
Source variables: 103
Frequencies | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Value | Label | Male | Female | Total |
-3 | NOT ASCERTAINED OR NONRESPONDENT | 734 | 730 | 1464 |
-2 | 492 | 589 | 1081 | |
-1 | DON'T KNOW | 48 | 206 | 254 |
0 | LESS THAN $100 | 2049 | 485 | 2534 |
1 - 40 | 968 | 48 | 1016 | |
41 - 100 | 561 | 612 | 1173 | |
101 - 140 | 109 | 1028 | 1137 | |
141 - 200 | 26 | 1171 | 1197 | |
202 - 1250 | 4 | 457 | 461 |
"Ancillary Data: Economic Imputations"
ysse74: Spouse's nonfarm self-employment earnings in $100's last year.
Data source: Graduate Respondent
Collected in: 1975
Mode: phone
Source variables: 104, 104c
Frequencies | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Value | Label | Male | Female | Total |
-3 | NOT ASCERTAINED OR NONRESPONDENT | 700 | 608 | 1308 |
-2 | 492 | 589 | 1081 | |
-1 | DON'T KNOW | 26 | 235 | 261 |
0 | LESS THAN $100 | 3674 | 3471 | 7145 |
1 - 10 | 46 | 73 | 119 | |
11 - 40 | 24 | 84 | 108 | |
41 - 100 | 18 | 91 | 109 | |
104 - 220 | 10 | 96 | 106 | |
224 - 850 | 1 | 79 | 80 |
"Ancillary Data: Economic Imputations"
ysfr74: Spouse's farm self-employment earnings in $100's last year.
Data source: Graduate Respondent
Collected in: 1975
Mode: phone
Source variables: 105, 105c
Frequencies | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Value | Label | Male | Female | Total |
-3 | NOT ASCERTAINED OR NONRESPONDENT | 692 | 554 | 1246 |
-2 | 492 | 589 | 1081 | |
-1 | DON'T KNOW | 32 | 134 | 166 |
0 | LESS THAN $100 | 3762 | 3888 | 7650 |
1 - 12 | 7 | 29 | 36 | |
15 - 40 | 1 | 35 | 36 | |
42 - 80 | 2 | 32 | 34 | |
90 - 150 | 2 | 40 | 42 | |
160 - 600 | 1 | 25 | 26 |
"Ancillary Data: Economic Imputations"