Gender Pay Gap in Australia: Statistics and Analysis

Statistics
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Executive summary
In this report it has been described about gender pay gap in Australia in private and public
sector. Also, it has been discussed on mean hourly wage of public and private sector staff.
Moreover, statistical analysis is done on wage of both sectors of staff. Besides that, difference in
social and demographic characteristics of both sector employees has been discussed.
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Contents
Executive summary.........................................................................................................................2
PART A...........................................................................................................................................4
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
ANALYSIS......................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
PART B...........................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
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PART A
INTRODUCTION
It is necessary to reduce pay gap in gender as well as in private and public sector. So, for
that government need to frame policy or law to ensure that there is no gender gap which exist.
Moreover, employees working in public and private sector must equal hourly pay (Dangeti,
2017). In this report it will be analysed and examined about data of pay of private and public
staff of Australia. Also, statistical calculations will be done as well in this.
ANALYSIS
Summary statistics of wage and public sector employees
Mean
39.9176
5 Mean
44.0104
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Standard Error
1.29470
1 Standard Error
1.58491
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Median 39 Median
41.3666
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Mode 31 Mode 50
Standard
Deviation
11.9365
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Standard
Deviation 14.6122
Sample
Variance
142.481
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Sample
Variance
213.516
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Kurtosis -1.02196 Kurtosis 1.53158
Skewness
0.40652
2 Skewness
0.92052
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Range 43 Range
77.6937
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Minimum 22 Minimum
21.2812
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Maximum 65 Maximum 98.975
Sum 3393 Sum
3740.88
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Count 85 Count 85
Interpretation- it can be analysed mean of wage of public sector employee is 44.01 and SD is
14.16. also, the median is 41.36 and mode is 50.
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