swiss
Fertility Data for Switzerland in 1888
Description
The swiss.fertility and swiss.x data sets contain fertility data for Switzerland in 1888.
The swiss object is a data frame created by combining
the swiss.fertility and swiss.x data sets.
Arguments
| swiss.fertility |
standardized fertility measure I[g] for each of 47 French-speaking provinces of Switzerland in approximately 1888.
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| swiss.x |
matrix with 5 columns that contain socioeconomic indicators for the provinces: 1) percent of population involved in agriculture as an occupation; 2) percent of "draftees" receiving highest mark on army examination; 3) percent of population whose education is beyond primary school; 4) percent of population who are Catholic; and, 5) percent of live births who live less than 1 year (infant mortality).
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Source
Mosteller and Tukey (1977).
Data Analysis and Regression.
Addison-Wesley.
Unpublished data used by permission of Francine van de Walle. Population Study Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.