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## Swiss Fertility and Socioeconomic Indicators (1888) Data

### Description

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

### Usage

    data(swiss)

### Format

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 | % 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.

### Details

(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 [0,100], where in the original, all but `"Catholic"` were scaled to [0,1].

### Source

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 Unpublished data assembled under NICHD contract number No 1-HD-O-2077.''

### Examples

    data(swiss)
    pairs(swiss, panel = panel.smooth, main = "swiss data")
    summary(lm(Fertility ~ . , data = swiss))

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