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---
language:
- en
tags:
- adult
- tabular_classification
- binary_classification
- multiclass_classification
- UCI
pretty_name: Adult
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
task_categories:
- tabular-classification
configs:
- encoding
- income
- income-no race
- race
license: cc
---
# Adult
The [Adult dataset](https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Adult) from the [UCI ML repository](https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets).
Census dataset including personal characteristic of a person, and their income threshold.
# Configurations and tasks
| **Configuration** | **Task** | Description |
|-------------------|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
| encoding | | Encoding dictionary showing original values of encoded features.|
| income | Binary classification | Classify the person's income as over or under the threshold. |
| income-no race | Binary classification | As `income`, but the `race` feature is removed. |
| race | Multiclass classification | Predict the race of the individual. |
# Usage
```python
from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("mstz/adult", "income")["train"]
```
# Features
Target feature changes according to the selected configuration and is always in last position in the dataset.
|**Feature** |**Type** | **Description** |
|-------------------------------|-----------|------------------------------------------------------------|
|`age` |`[int64]` | Age of the person. |
|`capital_gain` |`[float64]`| Capital gained by the person. |
|`capital_loss` |`[float64]`| Capital lost by the person. |
|`education` |`[int8]` | Education level: the higher, the more educated the person. |
|`final_weight` |`[int64]` | |
|`hours_worked_per_week` |`[int64]` | Hours worked per week. |
|`marital_status` |`[string]` | Marital status of the person. |
|`native_country` |`[string]` | Native country of the person. |
|`occupation` |`[string]` | Job of the person. |
|`race` |`[string]` | Race of the person. |
|`relationship` |`[string]` | |
|`is_male` |`[bool]` | Man/Woman. |
|`workclass` |`[string]` | Type of job of the person. |
|**over_threshold** |`int8` | `1` for income `>= 50k$`, `0` otherwise. |