In: Statistics and Probability
Each respondent in the Current Population Survey of March 1993
was classified as
employed, unemployed, or outside the labor force. The results for
men in California age 35-
44 can be cross-tabulated by marital status, as follows:
Married | Widowed, Divorced or Separated | ||
Employed | 679 | 103 | 114 |
Unemployed | 63 | 10 | 20 |
Not in labor force | 42 | 18 | 25 |
Men of different marital status seem to have different
distributions of labor force status. Or is
this just chance variation? (you may assume the table results from
a simple random
sample.)