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swiss {datasets}

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datasets
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R 2.15.0

Description

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

Usage

swiss

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 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].

References

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

Note

Files for all 182 districts in 1888 and other years have been available at http://opr.princeton.edu/archive/eufert/switz.html or http://opr.princeton.edu/archive/pefp/switz.asp.

They state that variables Examination and Education are averages for 1887, 1888 and 1889.

Examples

require(stats); require(graphics)
pairs(swiss, panel = panel.smooth, main = "swiss data",
      col = 3 + (swiss$Catholic > 50))
summary(lm(Fertility ~ . , data = swiss))

Documentation reproduced from R 2.15.0. License: GPL-2.