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Swiss Fertility and Socioeconomic Indicators (1888) Data
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Description
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Standardized fertility measure and socio-economic indicators for each of
47 French-speaking provinces of Switzerland at about 1888.

Usage
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::

    data(swiss)

Format
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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 [,3] Examination nation [,4] Education [,5] Catholic [,6]
Infant.Mortality live births who live less than 1 year.

All variables but 'Fert' give proportions of the population.

Source
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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Unpublished data assembled under NICHD contract number No 1-HD-O-2077."

References
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Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) “The New S
Language”. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.
