labor

OpenML dataset with id 4

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Full work available at URL: https://api.openml.org/data/v1/download/4/labor.arff

Upload date: 6 April 2014

Dataset Characteristics

Number of classes: 2
Number of features: 17 (numeric: 8, symbolic: 9 and in total binary: 4 )
Number of instances: 57
Number of instances with missing values: 56
Number of missing values: 326

Description

Author: Unknown Source: Collective Barganing Review, Labour Canada Please cite: https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/citation_policy.html

Date: Tue, 15 Nov 88 15:44:08 EST

From: stan <stan@csi2.UofO.EDU>
To: aha@ICS.UCI.EDU

1. Title: Final settlements in labor negotitions in Canadian industry

2. Source Information
   -- Creators: Collective Barganing Review, montly publication,
      Labour Canada, Industrial Relations Information Service,
        Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0J2, Canada, (819) 997-3117
        The data includes all collective agreements reached
        in the business and personal services sector for locals
        with at least 500 members (teachers, nurses, university
        staff, police, etc) in Canada in 87 and first quarter of 88.   
   -- Donor: Stan Matwin, Computer Science Dept, University of Ottawa,
                34 Somerset East, K1N 9B4, (stan@uotcsi2.bitnet)
   -- Date: November 1988
 
3. Past Usage:
   -- testing concept learning software, in particular
      an experimental method to learn two-tiered concept descriptions.
      The data was used to learn the description of an acceptable
      and unacceptable contract.
      The unacceptable contracts were either obtained by interviewing
      experts, or by inventing near misses.
      Examples of use are described in:
        Bergadano, F., Matwin, S., Michalski, R.,
        Zhang, J., Measuring Quality of Concept Descriptions, 
        Procs. of the 3rd European Working Sessions on Learning,
        Glasgow, October 1988.
        Bergadano, F., Matwin, S., Michalski, R., Zhang, J.,
        Representing and Acquiring Imprecise and Context-dependent
        Concepts in Knowledge-based Systems, Procs. of ISMIS'88,
        North Holland, 1988.
4. Relevant Information:
   -- data was used to test 2tier approach with learning
from positive and negative examples

5. Number of Instances: 57 

6. Number of Attributes: 16 

7. Attribute Information:
   1.  dur: duration of agreement 
       [1..7]
   2   wage1.wage : wage increase in first year of contract 
       [2.0 .. 7.0]
   3   wage2.wage : wage increase in second year of contract
       [2.0 .. 7.0]
   4   wage3.wage : wage increase in third year of contract
       [2.0 .. 7.0]
   5   cola : cost of living allowance 
       [none, tcf, tc]
   6   hours.hrs : number of working hours during week
       [35 .. 40]
   7   pension : employer contributions to pension plan
       [none, ret_allw, empl_contr]
   8   stby_pay : standby pay
       [2 .. 25]
   9   shift_diff : shift differencial : supplement for work on II and III shift
       [1 .. 25]
  10   educ_allw.boolean : education allowance 
       [true false]
  11   holidays : number of statutory holidays 
       [9 .. 15]
  12   vacation : number of paid vacation days
       [ba, avg, gnr]
  13   lngtrm_disabil.boolean : 
       employer's help during employee longterm disabil
       ity [true , false]
  14   dntl_ins : employers contribution towards the dental plan
       [none, half, full]
  15   bereavement.boolean : employer's financial contribution towards the 
       covering the costs of bereavement
       [true , false]
  16   empl_hplan : employer's contribution towards the health plan
       [none, half, full]

8. Missing Attribute Values: None

9. Class Distribution:

10. Exceptions from format instructions: no commas between attribute values.

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