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Gender and wages: data use

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I need to do a paper on gender and wage differences using the following:

1. Display data in both tabular and graphical format.

2. Identify some primary data collection methods that could be used to collect data.

3. Discuss any possible ethical concerns regarding the collection of data

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A discussion on gender and wage issues using graphs and other information. Resources provided and census figures in particular are noted as a resource, how to access.

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http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/acs-09.pdf

This is the site to go to for information from the Census Bureau on wages, income and poverty. There are a lot of links and parts to the Census Bureau site and for a lot of types of data relating to people in the US, it is the best first place to look. The actual site, not specific to anything is: www.census.gov
Also at the site, there is an excellent search engine that can give you any number of variations on what you put in as keywords.

An alternative, that is much more work, is ...

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