PLS 802
Spring 2017
Professor Jacoby
CANADIAN WOMEN'S LABOUR-FORCE PARTICIPATION DATA
The file “canadian women.txt” contains yearly data on labor force participation among Canadian
women. The data are taken from Fox, B. (1980) Women’s Domestic Labour and Their Involvement
in Wage Work. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation. Reported in Fox, John. (2008) Applied
Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models (Second Edition). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
In the file, there is one line per observation and adjacent data values are separated by whitespace.
On each line, the variables appear in the following order:
Year.
Percent of adult women in the workforce.
Total fertility rate: expected births to a cohort of 1000 women at current age-specific fertility
rates.
Men's average weekly wages, in constant 1935 dollars and adjusted for current tax rates.
Women's average weekly wages.
Per-capita consumer debt, in constant dollars.
Percent of the active workforce working 34 hours per week or less.