swiss: 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
swiss
Arguments
format
A data frame with 47 observations on 6 variables, each of which
is in percent, i.e., in $[0, 100]$.
rll{
[,1] Fertility $I_g$, common standardized
fertility measure
[,2] Agriculture % of males involved in agriculture
as occupation
[,3] Examination % draftees receiving highest mark
on army examination
[,4] Education % education beyond primary school for draftees.
[,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.
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 Unpublished data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.
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.