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foods: Food consumption patterns accross European countries (FOODS)

Description

The relative consumption of 20 food items was compiled for 16 countries. The values range between 0 and 100 percent and a high value corresponds to a high consumption. The dataset contains 3 missing data.

Usage

data(foods)

Arguments

Value

Data frame (numeric type except the first column, which can be transformed into row names) with 16 rows and 21 columns, corresponding to the 'Country' (column 1), followed by the consumption of each of the 20 food items (columns 2-21). For details see the 'Format' section above.

Format

A data frame with the following parameters:
Country
Name of the country
Gr_Coffe
Ground Coffee
Inst_Coffe
Instant Coffee
Tea
Tea
Sweetner
Sweetner
Biscuits
Biscuits
Pa_Soup
Powder Soup
Ti_Soup
Tin Soup
In_Potat
Instant Potatoes
Fro_Fish
Frozen Fish
Fro_Veg
Frozen Vegetables
Apples
Apples
Oranges
Oranges
Ti_Fruit
Tin Fruit
Jam
Jam
Garlic
Garlic
Butter
Butter
Margarine
Margarine
Olive_Oil
Olive Oil
Yoghurt
Yoghurt
Crisp_Brea
Crisp Bread

References

Eriksson et al. (2006). Multi- and Megarvariate Data Analysis. Umetrics Academy. pp.10, 33, 48.