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The data is hypothetical, it represents two samples of household income in the United States.  The first sample was taken in June of 1975 and the second sample was taken in June of 2004.  Both samples are in terms of current dollars.

Your job is to examine the data using descriptive statistics and write a one page report detailing your findings.

This is a SAS data set consisting of 1000 observations on two variables.  The first, Y75, is the sample from 1975, the second, Y05, is the sample from 2005.  The data can be downloaded from the course website, or obtained from the instructor (bring your own floppy, flash drive, or zip disk). 

Once you have the data set on a floppy or zip disk it can be retrieved using the following SAS statements:

            LIBNAME INC 'A:\' ;

            DATA INCOME;

                        SET  INC.DIST04;

You may have to do some digging to get the data to reveal some of its more interesting facets.