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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>R: Swiss Fertility and Socioeconomic Indicators (1888) Data</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="R.css" /> </head><body> <table width="100%" summary="page for swiss {datasets}"><tr><td>swiss {datasets}</td><td style="text-align: right;">R Documentation</td></tr></table> <h2>Swiss Fertility and Socioeconomic Indicators (1888) Data</h2> <h3>Description</h3> <p>Standardized fertility measure and socio-economic indicators for each of 47 French-speaking provinces of Switzerland at about 1888. </p> <h3>Usage</h3> <pre>swiss</pre> <h3>Format</h3> <p>A data frame with 47 observations on 6 variables, <em>each</em> of which is in percent, i.e., in <i>[0, 100]</i>. </p> <table summary="Rd table"> <tr> <td style="text-align: right;"> [,1] </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Fertility </td><td style="text-align: left;"> <i>Ig</i>, ‘common standardized fertility measure’</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right;"> [,2] </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Agriculture</td><td style="text-align: left;"> % of males involved in agriculture as occupation</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right;"> [,3] </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Examination</td><td style="text-align: left;"> % draftees receiving highest mark on army examination</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right;"> [,4] </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Education </td><td style="text-align: left;"> % education beyond primary school for draftees.</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right;"> [,5] </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Catholic </td><td style="text-align: left;"> % ‘catholic’ (as opposed to ‘protestant’).</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: right;"> [,6] </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Infant.Mortality</td><td style="text-align: left;"> live births who live less than 1 year. </td> </tr> </table> <p>All variables but ‘Fertility’ give proportions of the population. </p> <h3>Details</h3> <p>(paraphrasing Mosteller and Tukey): </p> <p>Switzerland, in 1888, was entering a period known as the <em>demographic transition</em>; i.e., its fertility was beginning to fall from the high level typical of underdeveloped countries. </p> <p>The data collected are for 47 French-speaking “provinces” at about 1888. </p> <p>Here, all variables are scaled to <i>[0, 100]</i>, where in the original, all but <code>"Catholic"</code> were scaled to <i>[0, 1]</i>. </p> <h3>Note</h3> <p>Files for all 182 districts in 1888 and other years have been available at <a href="https://opr.princeton.edu/archive/pefp/switz.aspx">https://opr.princeton.edu/archive/pefp/switz.aspx</a>. </p> <p>They state that variables <code>Examination</code> and <code>Education</code> are averages for 1887, 1888 and 1889. </p> <h3>Source</h3> <p>Project “16P5”, pages 549–551 in </p> <p>Mosteller, F. and Tukey, J. W. (1977) <em>Data Analysis and Regression: A Second Course in Statistics</em>. Addison-Wesley, Reading Mass. </p> <p>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.” </p> <h3>References</h3> <p>Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) <em>The New S Language</em>. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole. </p> <h3>Examples</h3> <pre> require(stats); require(graphics) pairs(swiss, panel = panel.smooth, main = "swiss data", col = 3 + (swiss$Catholic > 50)) summary(lm(Fertility ~ . , data = swiss)) </pre> <hr /><div style="text-align: center;">[Package <em>datasets</em> version 3.6.0 <a href="00Index.html">Index</a>]</div> </body></html>