This study examines differences in average weekly earnings between public-sector and private-sector employees in Australia. In the 1990s, average weekly earnings of full-time public sector employees were higher than for full-time private sector employees by 10 to 15 percent for males and 20 to...

One form of data reduction is cluster analysis which is used to separate detailed data into constituent groups. This paper illustrates a useful application of cluster analysis to the data reduction of detailed discrete responses of a type that are often found in large surveys. This method is...