| swiss {base} | R Documentation |
Standardized fertility measure and socio-economic indicators for each of 47 French-speaking provinces of Switzerland at about 1888.
data(swiss)
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 | % 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.
(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].
Files for all 182 districts in 1888 and other years are available at http://opr.princeton.edu/archive/eufert/switz.html.
They state that variables Examination and Education
are averages for 1887, 1888 and 1889.
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 Unpublished data assembled under NICHD contract number No 1-HD-O-2077.”
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.
data(swiss)
pairs(swiss, panel = panel.smooth, main = "swiss data",
col = 3 + (swiss$Catholic > 50))
summary(lm(Fertility ~ . , data = swiss))