wages1833 {DAAG}R Documentation

Wages of Lancashire Cotton Factory Workers in 1833

Description

The wages1833 data frame gives the wages of Lancashire cotton factory workers in 1833.

Usage

wages1833

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

age
age in years
mnum
number of male workers
mwage
average wage of male workers
fnum
number of female workers
fwage
average wage of female workers

Source

Boot, H.M. 1995. How Skilled Were the Lancashire Cotton Factory Workers in 1833? Economic History Review 48: 283-303.

Examples

attach(wages1833)
plot(mwage~age,ylim=range(c(mwage,fwage[fwage>0])))
points(fwage[fwage>0]~age[fwage>0],pch=15,col="red")
lines(lowess(age,mwage))
lines(lowess(age[fwage>0],fwage[fwage>0]),col="red")

[Package DAAG version 0.76 Index]