Swiss Fertility and Socioeconomic Indicators (1888) Data

Usage

data(swiss)

Format

A data frame with 47 observations on 6 variables, each of which is in percent, i.e., in [0,100].

[,1] Fertility Ig, ``common standardized fertility measure''
[,2] Agriculture % involved in agriculture as occupation
[,3] Examination % ``draftees'' receiving highest mark
on army examination
[,4] Education % education beyond primary school.
[,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.

Description

(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 seven 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].

Source

Project ``16P5'', pp.549-551 in
Mosteller, F. and Tukey, J. W. (1977). Data Analysis and Regression: A Second Course in Statistics, Addison-Wesley, Reading Mass.

indicating 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Unpublished data assembled under NICHD contract number No 1-HD-O-2077.''

Examples

data(swiss)
pairs(swiss)
summary(lm(Fertility ~ . , data = swiss))

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