swiss                 package:Zelig                 R Documentation

_S_w_i_s_s _F_e_r_t_i_l_i_t_y _a_n_d _S_o_c_i_o_e_c_o_n_o_m_i_c _I_n_d_i_c_a_t_o_r_s (_1_8_8_8) _D_a_t_a

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Standardized fertility measure and socio-economic indicators for
     each of 47 French-speaking provinces of Switzerland at about 1888.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(swiss)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A data frame with 47 observations on 6 variables, each of which is
     in percent, i.e., in [0,100].

     [,1]  Fertility         Ig, "common standardized fertility
     measure" [,2]  Agriculture        [,3]  Examination        nation
     [,4]  Education          [,5]  Catholic           [,6] 
     Infant.Mortality  live births who live less than 1 year.

     All variables but 'Fert' give proportions of the population.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Project "16P5", pages 549-551 in

     Mosteller, F. and Tukey, J. W. (1977) ``Data Analysis and
     Regression: A Second Course in Statistics''. Addison-Wesley,
     Reading Mass.

     indicating their source as "Data used by permission of Franice van
     de Walle. Office of Population Research, Princeton University,
     1976.  Unpublished data assembled under NICHD contract number No
     1-HD-O-2077."

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) ``The New S
     Language''. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.

