2BUS708: STATISTICS AND DATA ANALYSIS
1.1 Introduction
One of the major problems that are faced in Australia is gender discrimination. Due to this
discrimination the wages of male and female employees have difference significantly. This
discrimination is caused at the time of hiring. The job offered to women are usually low paid job. Other
than these, there can be various other factors that cause this discrimination. Identifying other factors is
the main aim of this research (Blau 2016).
This research is carried out with the help of the data collected from the Australian Taxation
Office (ATO) website. From the large dataset, a sample of 1000 has been selected to conduct this
research. This data is secondary data. The variables gender and occupation code are categorical
variables and salary and deduction are numerical variables. Table 1 shows the first five cases.
Table 1
In the first part of this research, the secondary data will be analyzed and in the second part, a
survey will be conducted on 50 people and information on their gender and wages have been recorded.
Information on the wages might not be authentic as the people are usually uncomfortable in sharing
that information. This data collected is primary data.
2.1 Descriptive Statistics
The variable occupation code contains information about 10 different types of occupation. Each
of the codes are indicated by the following occupation types:
Table 2.1
Occupation Code Occupation Type
0 occupation is not specified or listed
1 Managers
2 Professionals
3 Technicians and Trades Workers
4 Community and Personal Service Workers
5 Clerical and Administrative Workers
6 Sales Workers
7 Machinery operators and Drivers
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