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About
Predict whether annual income of an individual exceeds $50K/yr based on census data. Also known as "Census Income" dataset.
Extraction was done by Barry Becker from the 1994 Census database. A set of reasonably clean records was extracted using the following conditions: ((AAGE>16) && (AGI>100) && (AFNLWGT>1)&& (HRSWK>0))
Prediction task is to determine whether a person's income is over $50,000 a year.
Subject Area
Social Science
Instances
48,842
Features
14
Data Types
Multivariate
Tasks
Classification
Feature Types
Categorical, Integer
Features
| Name | Role | Type | Units | Missing Values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| age | Feature | Integer | - | No | |
| workclass | Feature | Categorical | - | Yes | |
| fnlwgt | Feature | Integer | - | No | |
| education | Feature | Categorical | - | No | |
| education-num | Feature | Integer | - | No | |
| marital-status | Feature | Categorical | - | No | |
| occupation | Feature | Categorical | - | Yes | |
| relationship | Feature | Categorical | - | No | |
| race | Feature | Categorical | - | No | |
| sex | Feature | Binary | - | No | |
| capital-gain | Feature | Integer | - | No | |
| capital-loss | Feature | Integer | - | No | |
| hours-per-week | Feature | Integer | - | No | |
| native-country | Feature | Categorical | - | Yes | |
| income | Target | Binary | - | No |
Introductory Paper
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