● age?: the age of an individual
○ Integer greater than 0
● workclass?: a general term to represent the employment status of an individual
○ Private, Self-emp-not-inc, Self-emp-inc, Federal-gov, Local-gov, State-gov,
Without-pay, Never-worked.
● fnlwgt: final weight. In other words, this is the number of people the census believes
the entry represents..
○ Integer greater than 0
● education?: the highest level of education achieved by an individual.
○ Bachelors, Some-college, 11th, HS-grad, Prof-school, Assoc-acdm, Assoc-voc,
9th, 7th-8th, 12th, Masters, 1st-4th, 10th, Doctorate, 5th-6th, Preschool.
● education-num?: the highest level of education achieved in numerical form.
○ Integer greater than 0
● marital-status?: marital status of an individual. Married-civ-spouse corresponds to a
civilian spouse while Married-AF-spouse is a spouse in the Armed Forces.
○ Married-civ-spouse, Divorced, Never-married, Separated, Widowed,
Married-spouse-absent, Married-AF-spouse.
● occupation?: the general type of occupation of an individual
○ Tech-support, Craft-repair, Other-service, Sales, Exec-managerial,
Prof-specialty, Handlers-cleaners, Machine-op-inspct, Adm-clerical,
Farming-fishing, Transport-moving, Priv-house-serv, Protective-serv,
Armed-Forces.
● relationship?: represents what this individual is relative to others. For example an
individual could be a Husband. Each entry only has one relationship attribute and is
somewhat redundant with marital status. We might not make use of this attribute at all
○ Wife, Own-child, Husband, Not-in-family, Other-relative, Unmarried.
● race?: Descriptions of an individual’s race
○ White, Asian-Pac-Islander, Amer-Indian-Eskimo, Other, Black.
● sex?: the biological sex of the individual
○ Male, Female
● capital-gain?: capital gains for an individual
○ Integer greater than or equal to 0
● capital-loss?: capital loss for an individual
○ Integer greater than or equal to 0
● hours-per-week?: the hours an individual has reported to work per week
○ continuous.
● native-country?: country of origin for an individual
○ United-States, Cambodia, England, Puerto-Rico, Canada, Germany,
Outlying-US(Guam-USVI-etc), India, Japan, Greece, South, China, Cuba, Iran,
Honduras, Philippines, Italy, Poland, Jamaica, Vietnam, Mexico, Portugal,
Ireland, France, Dominican-Republic, Laos, Ecuador, Taiwan, Haiti, Columbia,
Hungary, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Scotland, Thailand, Yugoslavia, El-Salvador,
TrinadadTobago, Peru, Hong, Holand-Netherlands.
● income: whether or not an individual makes more than $50,000 annually.
○ 50k