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Parent-Duchatelet's time-series data on the number of prostitutes in Paris
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<h3>Description</h3>


<p>A table indicating month by month, for the years 1812-1854, the number of prostitutes on the 
registers of the administration of the city of Paris.
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(Prostitutes)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>


<p>A data frame with 516 observations on the following 5 variables.
</p>

<dl>
<dt><code>Year</code></dt><dd><p>a numeric vector</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>month</code></dt><dd><p>a factor with levels <code>Apr</code> <code>Aug</code> <code>Dec</code> <code>Feb</code> <code>Jan</code> <code>Jul</code> <code>Jun</code> <code>Mar</code> <code>May</code> <code>Nov</code> <code>Oct</code> <code>Sep</code></p>
</dd>
<dt><code>count</code></dt><dd><p>a numeric vector: number of prostitutes</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>mon</code></dt><dd><p>a numeric vector: numeric month</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>date</code></dt><dd><p>a Date</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Details</h3>


<p>The data table was digitally scanned with OCR, and errors were corrected by comparing the
yearly totals recorded in the table to the row sums of the scanned data.
</p>


<h3>Source</h3>


<p>Parent-Duchatelet, A. (1857), <EM>De la prostitution dans la ville de Paris</EM>, 3rd ed,  p. 32, 36
</p>


<h3>Examples</h3>

<pre>
data(Prostitutes)
## maybe str(Prostitutes) ; plot(Prostitutes) ...
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