\Header{swiss}{Swiss Fertility and Socioeconomic Indicators (1888) Data}
\keyword{datasets}{swiss}
\begin{Description}\relax
Standardized fertility measure and socio-economic indicators for each
of 47 French-speaking provinces of Switzerland at about 1888.\end{Description}
\begin{Usage}
\begin{verbatim}data(swiss)\end{verbatim}
\end{Usage}
\begin{Format}\relax
A data frame with 47 observations on 6 variables, \emph{each} of
which is in percent, i.e., in \eqn{[0,100]}{}.

\Tabular{rll}{
[,1] & Fertility & \eqn{I_g}{Ig}, ``common standardized
fertility measure''\\{}
[,2] & Agriculture& \% involved in agriculture as occupation\\{}
[,3] & Examination& \% ``draftees'' receiving highest mark
on army examination\\{}
[,4] & Education & \% education beyond primary school.\\{}
[,5] & Catholic & \% catholic (as opposed to ``protestant'').\\{}
[,6] & Infant.Mortality& live births who live less than 1
year.
}

All variables but `Fertility' give proportions of the population.\end{Format}
\begin{Details}\relax
(paraphrasing Mosteller and Tukey):

Switzerland, in 1888, was entering a period known as the ``demographic
transition''; i.e., its fertility was beginning to fall from the high
level typical of underdeveloped countries.

The data collected are for 47 seven French-speaking ``provinces'' at
about 1888.

Here, all variables are scaled to \eqn{[0,100]}{}, where in the
original, all but \code{"Catholic"} were scaled to \eqn{[0,1]}{}.\end{Details}
\begin{Source}\relax
Project ``16P5'', pages 549--551 in

Mosteller, F. and Tukey, J. W. (1977)
\emph{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  Unpublished data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.''\end{Source}
\begin{Examples}
\begin{ExampleCode}
data(swiss)
pairs(swiss, panel = panel.smooth, main = "swiss data")
summary(lm(Fertility ~ . , data = swiss))
\end{ExampleCode}
\end{Examples}

