National health, welfare, and education statistics for 213
places, mostly UN members, but also other areas like Hong Kong that are not
independent countries.

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Datasets to Accompany J. Fox and S. Weisberg,
An R Companion to Applied Regression, Third Edition, Sage (2019).

John Fox

carData

Companion to Applied Regression Data Sets

Sanford Weisberg

Brad Price

UN function

A data frame with 213 rows on the following 7 variables.<dl class="dl-horizontal">
 <dt><code>region</code></dt><dd>Region of the world: <code>Africa</code>, <code>Asia</code>, <code>Caribbean</code>, <code>Europe</code>, 
 <code>Latin Amer</code>, <code>North America</code>, <code>NorthAtlantic</code>, <code>Oceania</code>.</dd>
 <dt><code>group</code></dt><dd>A factor with levels <code>oecd</code> for countries that
are members of the OECD, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development, as of May 2012, <code>africa</code> for countries on the African
continent, and <code>other</code> for all other countries. No OECD countries are
located in Africa.</dd>
 <dt><code>fertility</code></dt><dd>Total fertility rate, number of children per woman.</dd>
 <dt><code>ppgdp</code></dt><dd>Per capita gross domestic product in US dollars.</dd>
 <dt><code>lifeExpF</code></dt><dd>Female life expectancy, years.</dd>
 <dt><code>pctUrban</code></dt><dd>Percent urban.</dd>
 <dt><code>infantMortality</code></dt><dd>Infant deaths by age 1 year per 1000 live births</dd>
 </dl>

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National Statistics from the United Nations, Mostly From 2009--2011 — UN

A data frame with 213 rows on the following 7 variables.<dl class='dl-horizontal'>
 <dt><code>region</code></dt><dd>Region of the world: <code>Africa</code>, <code>Asia</code>, <code>Caribbean</code>, <code>Europe</code>, 
 <code>Latin Amer</code>, <code>North America</code>, <code>NorthAtlantic</code>, <code>Oceania</code>.</dd>
 <dt><code>group</code></dt><dd>A factor with levels <code>oecd</code> for countries that
are members of the OECD, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development, as of May 2012, <code>africa</code> for countries on the African
continent, and <code>other</code> for all other countries. No OECD countries are
located in Africa.</dd>
 <dt><code>fertility</code></dt><dd>Total fertility rate, number of children per woman.</dd>
 <dt><code>ppgdp</code></dt><dd>Per capita gross domestic product in US dollars.</dd>
 <dt><code>lifeExpF</code></dt><dd>Female life expectancy, years.</dd>
 <dt><code>pctUrban</code></dt><dd>Percent urban.</dd>
 <dt><code>infantMortality</code></dt><dd>Infant deaths by age 1 year per 1000 live births</dd>
 </dl>

UN: National Statistics from the United Nations, Mostly From 2009--2011

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