Prostitutes: Parent-Duchatelet's time-series data on the number of prostitutes in Paris
Description
A table indicating month by month, for the years 1812-1854, the number of
prostitutes on the registers of the administration of the city of Paris.
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 516 observations on the following 5 variables.
Year
a numeric vector
month
a factor with levels AprAugDecFebJanJulJunMarMayNovOctSep
count
a numeric vector: number of prostitutes
mon
a numeric vector: numeric month
date
a Date
Details
The data table was digitally scanned with OCR, and errors were corrected by
comparing the yearly totals recorded in the table to the row sums of the
scanned data.
month should obviously be made and ordered factor.