Data Explorer: Demographics of the Low-Wage Workforce Which types of workers would be most affected if the federal minimum wage increased to $15 an hour? Would the job losses and larger incomes (for the employed) accrue mostly to young workers, to women, to minorities? Data file to download from IPUMS: Current Population Surveys, Basic Monthly Files. Time frame to download: 2021. Variables to download (IPUMS variable name in italics): 1 O 00 N N W B W i o 11. . Year: year . Sex: sex . Age: age . Race: race . Hispanic origin: hispan . Paid by the hour: paidhour . Weekly earnings: earnweek . Hourly wage: hourwage. (Note that this variable is only available for workers in the ORG who are paid by the hour) . Hours usually worked per week at main job: uhrsworkl . Educational attainment: educ Sampling weight for ORG sample: earnwt Sample to use in analysis: Workers aged 16-69 in the Outgoing Rotation Groups (IPUMS variable paidhour equals 1 or 2), and who have values for weekly earnings (earnweek), the hourly wage rate (hourwage), and hours worked weekly (uarsworkl) that allow the calculation of a valid hourly wage rate. Created variables: Created variables: 1. The worker's hourly wage rate. The hourly wage equals weekly earnings (earnweek) divided by usual hours worked weekly (uhrsworkl) if the worker is not paid by the hour (paidhour equals 1). Valid values of the hourly wage for this subsample require that earnweek is greater than 0 and less than 9999.99, and uhrswork| is greater than 0 and less than 997. The hourly wage equals hourwage if the worker is paid by the hour (paidhour equals 2). Valid values of hourwage for this subsample are greater than 0 and less than 99. 2. A variable indicating if the person is a low-wage worker (= 1 if hourly wage rate is $15 or less; 0 otherwise) 3. A recoded race variable classifying persons into one of five groups: 1. non-Hispanic white (race takes on a value of 100 and &ispan equals 0); 2. non-Hispanic Black (race equals 200 and hispan equals 0); 3. non-Hispanic Asian (race equals 651 and Aispan equals 0); 4. Hispanic (Aispan > 0); 5. all other. 4. A recoded education variable classifying persons into one of four groups: 1. less than high school (educ takes on a value less than or equal to 60); 2. high school (educ takes on a value between 70 and 73); 3. some college (educ takes on a value between 80 and 100); and 4. college (educ takes on a value of 110 or greater). Page 128 Statistical analysis: 1. Figure showing the fraction of men and the fraction of women who are in the low-wage workforce at each age. 2. Figure showing the fraction of workers in each race group who are in the low-wage workforce at each age. Exclude the race group of \"all other\" when preparing this figure. 3. Figure showing the fraction of workers in each education group who are in the low-wage workforce at each age