Exercise

Average number of hours worked

Full-time employment is employment in which a person works a minimum number of hours defined as such by his/her employer. Companies in the United States commonly require 40 hours per week to be considered a full time employee. We will use data from the American Community Survey to estimate the number of hours Americans work.

Use the acs12_emp dataset you created earlier; it's already loaded for you.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Create a 95% confidence interval using the hrs_work column.
  • Interpret the confidence interval. Is it likely the average number of hours Americans work is equal to 40?