CCS: Charitable Giving Dataset
In BCA: Business and Customer Analytics

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The CCS data set has 1600 observations and 20 variables, and is from the data is from the Britsh Columbia and Yukon region of a nationwide Canadian charitable society. The data examine whether a donor joined the Monthly Giver Program, in which he or she opts to make a pre-arranged monthly donation to the charity by credit card. The actual monthly givers have been highly over-sampled. In the charity's database they represent one percent of donors, but they comprise 50 percent of this sample. This level of oversampling is common in data mining applications.

data(CCS)

This data set contains the following variables:

MonthGive: A factor indicating whether the donor joined the monthly giver program in the last two annual campaigns with levels:
No
Yes
Region: A factor indicating where in British Columbia or the Yukon the donor resides with levels:
R1 (Vancouver Island)
R2 (Greater Vancouver)
R3 (The Fraser Valley)
R4 (The North Coast of BC)
R5 (The Central and Southern Interior of BC)
R6 (The Northern Interior of BC and the Yukon)
YearsGive: The number of years the individual has given to the Canadian Cancer Society.
AveDonAmt: The average dollar amount of past donations by the donor.
LastDonAmt: The dollar amount of the last donation by the donor.
DonPerYear: The rate of donating to the Canadian Cancer Society measured as the number of donations per year by the donor.
NewDonor: A factor that indicates whether the individual is a first time donor with levels.
No
Yes
Age20t29: The percentage of people between age 20 and 29 residing in the Enumeration Area in which the donor resides.
Age20t39: The percentage of people between age 20 and 39 residing in the Enumeration Area in which the donor resides.
Age60pls: The percentage of people 60 years of age or older residing in the Enumeration Area in which the donor resides.
Age70pls: The percentage of people 70 years of age or older residing in the Enumeration Area in which the donor resides.
Age80pls: The percentage of people 80 years of age or older residing in the Enumeration Area in which the donor resides.
AdultAge: The average age of adult residents in the Enumeration Area in which the donor resides.
SomeUnivP: The percentage of adults in the postal code in which the donor resides that have an educational attainment of some college or university attendance.
FinUnivP: The percentage of adults in the Enumeration Area in which the donor resides that have a university degree.
hh1t2mem: The percentage of households in the Enumeration Area in which the donor resides that have only one or two members present.
hh1mem: The percentage of households in the Enumeration Area in which the donor resides that have only a single member present.
AveIncEA: The average pre-tax income of households in the Enumeration Area in which the donor resides.
DwelValEA: The average dwelling value in the Enumeration Area in which the donor resides.
EngPrmLang: The percentage of households in the Enumeration Area in which the donor resides that have have English as their primary language.