metadata

language:
  - en
tags:
  - adult
  - tabular_classification
  - binary_classification
pretty_name: Adult
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
task_categories:
  - tabular-classification
configs:
  - encoding
  - income
  - income-no race
  - race

Adult

The Adult dataset from the UCI ML repository. Census dataset including income threshold.

Configurations and tasks

The dataset has four configurations:

encoding, which holds the encoding dictionaries mapping binary and ordinal features to their value;
income, for binary classification of the individual's income;
income-no race, as income, but the race feature is removed;
race, multiclass classification to predict the race of the individual.

Features

age Age of the person;
capital_gain Capital gained by the person;
capital_loss Capital lost by the person;
education Education level: the higher, the more educated the person;
final_weight
hours_per_week Hours worked per week;
marital_status Marital status of the person;
native_country Native country of the person;
occupation Job of the person;
race Race of the person;
relationship
sex Sex of the person;
workclass Type of job of the person;
over_threshold 1 for income >= 50k$, 0 otherwise.