BigMac2003

Prices in many world cities from a
2003 Union Bank of Switzerland report.

datasets

Datasets to Accompany S. Weisberg (2014),
"Applied Linear Regression," 4th edition.  Many data files
in this package are included in the alr3 package as well, so only one of them
should be used.

Sanford Weisberg

alr4

Data to Accompany Applied Linear Regression 4th Edition

BigMac2003 function

This data frame uses the name of the city as row names, and
contains the following columns:<dl>
 <dt>BigMac</dt>
<dd>Minutes of labor to purchase a Big Mac</dd> <dt>Bread</dt>
<dd>Minutes of labor to purchase 1 kg of bread</dd> <dt>Rice</dt>
<dd>Minutes of labor to purchase 1 kg of rice</dd> <dt>FoodIndex</dt>
<dd>Food price index (Zurich=100)</dd> <dt>Bus</dt>
<dd>Cost in US dollars for a one-way 10 km ticket</dd> <dt>Apt</dt>
<dd>Normal rent (US dollars) of a 3 room apartment</dd> <dt>TeachGI</dt>
<dd>Primary teacher's gross income, 1000s of US dollars</dd> <dt>TeachNI</dt>
<dd>Primary teacher's net income, 1000s of US dollars</dd> <dt>TaxRate</dt>
<dd>Tax rate paid by a primary teacher</dd> <dt>TeachHours</dt>
<dd>Primary teacher's hours of work per week:</dd> 
</dl>

Format

World cities data — BigMac2003

This data frame uses the name of the city as row names, and
contains the following columns:<dl>
 <dt>BigMac</dt>
<dd>Minutes of labor to purchase a Big Mac</dd>

 <dt>Bread</dt>
<dd>Minutes of labor to purchase 1 kg of bread</dd>

 <dt>Rice</dt>
<dd>Minutes of labor to purchase 1 kg of rice</dd>

 <dt>FoodIndex</dt>
<dd>Food price index (Zurich=100)</dd>

 <dt>Bus</dt>
<dd>Cost in US dollars for a one-way 10 km ticket</dd>

 <dt>Apt</dt>
<dd>Normal rent (US dollars) of a 3 room apartment</dd>

 <dt>TeachGI</dt>
<dd>Primary teacher's gross income, 1000s of US dollars</dd>

 <dt>TeachNI</dt>
<dd>Primary teacher's net income, 1000s of US dollars</dd>

 <dt>TaxRate</dt>
<dd>Tax rate paid by a primary teacher</dd>

 <dt>TeachHours</dt>
<dd>Primary teacher's hours of work per week:</dd>

 
</dl>

BigMac2003: World cities data

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