Living Wage Estimates

Scrape of MIT’s Living Wage website

mit.edu-livingwage-2022-1.3.4. Modified 2023-04-13T20:35:38

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Documentation

Data scraped from the MIT Living Wage website.

living_wage_tblc

The living_wage_tblc adapts the living_wage_counties file to the template for the data provided by Tablecloth. The file includes only the country geographies and the living_wage values, and is organized into columns for each of the unique household structures indicated by the adult, working and child columns in the living_wage_counties file, with this correspondence:

adults working children household
0 1 1 0 one_adult
1 1 1 1 one_adult_one_child
2 1 1 2 one_adult_two_children
3 1 1 3 one_adult_three_children
4 2 1 0 two_adults_one_working
5 2 1 1 two_adults_one_working_one_child
6 2 1 2 two_adults_one_working_two_children
7 2 1 3 two_adults_one_working_three_children
8 2 2 0 two_adults
9 2 2 1 two_adults_one_child
10 2 2 2 two_adults_two_children
11 2 2 3 two_adults_three_children

Contacts

Data Dictionary

occupations | living_wage_counties | living_wage_metros | expenses | living_wage_tlbc

occupations

Column NameData TypeDescription
geoidstring
groupstring
urlstring
occupational_areastring
typical_annual_salaryinteger

living_wage_counties

Column NameData TypeDescription
geoidstring
urlstring
adultsinteger
workinginteger
childreninteger
living_wagenumber
poverty_wagenumber
minimum_wagenumber

living_wage_metros

Column NameData TypeDescription
geoidstring
urlstring
adultsinteger
workinginteger
childreninteger
living_wagenumber
poverty_wagenumber
minimum_wagenumber

expenses

Column NameData TypeDescription
geoidstring
groupstring
urlstring
adultsinteger
workinginteger
childreninteger
foodinteger
child_careinteger
medicalinteger
housinginteger
transportationinteger
civicinteger
otherinteger
required_inc_atinteger
annual_taxesinteger
required_inc_btinteger

living_wage_tlbc

Column NameData TypeDescription
state_namestring
state_fipsinteger
county_nametext
county_fipsinteger
wage_typestring
one_adultnumber
one_adult_one_childnumber
one_adult_two_childrennumber
one_adult_three_childrennumber
two_adults_one_workingnumber
two_adults_one_working_one_childnumber
two_adults_one_working_two_childrennumber
two_adults_one_working_three_childrennumber
two_adultsnumber
two_adults_one_childnumber
two_adults_two_childrennumber
two_adults_three_childrennumber

Packages