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.
This exercise is part of the course
Inference for Numerical Data in R
Exercise instructions
- 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?
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Run a t-test on hrs_work and look at the CI
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