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  |Brian Stipak|  \   ))    DOCUMENTATION FOR THE BANK.SAV FILE
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  |____***__ __| /   /      This file contains information about 474
         _// ||\ _\ /       employees hired by a midwestern bank between
        (_/ (_| (__/        1969 and 1971.  The information includes the
                            employees' beginning salary, the salary at the
end of the study (March, 1977), and information on other characteristics of
the employees.  This is a good dataset for doing an analysis of possible salary
discrimination.

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LIST OF VARIABLE NAMES FOLLOWED BY A DEFINITION IN SINGLE QUOTES:

   ID 'Employee Code'
   SALBEG 'Beginning Salary'
   SEX 'Sex of Employee'
   TIME 'Job Seniority' [Months on the job at end of study, 1977]
   AGE 'Age of Employee' [At end of study, 1977]
   SALNOW 'Current Salary' [Salary at end of study, 1977]
   EDLEVEL 'Educational Level' [Years education]
   WORK 'Work Experience' [Years experience at time hired by bank]
   JOBCAT 'Employment Category'
   MINORITY 'Race Classification'

DEFINITION OF VALUES FOR CATEGORICAL VARIABLES (Note that variable names
are in all caps, followed by the numeric values, with each value followed by
a definition in single quotes):

   SEX      0 'Males' 1 'Females'

   JOBCAT   1 'Clerical' 2 'Office Trainee' 3 'Security Officer'
            4 'College Trainee' 5 'Exempt Employee'
            6 'MBA Trainee' 7 'Technical'

   MINORITY 0 'White' 1 'Nonwhite'

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Note:  These data are originally from an SPSSX file (BANK SPSSX)
provided by SPSS Inc.