yule: Data on 19th century English Poverty from Yule (1899)

yuleR Documentation

Data on 19th century English Poverty from Yule (1899)

Description

yule allows for a look at the correlation between poverty relief and poverty rates in England in the 19th century.

Usage

yule

Format

A data frame with 32 rows and 5 variables

location

Location in England

paup

Pauperism Growth

outrelief

Poverty Relief Growth

old

Annual growth in aged population

pop

Annual growth in population

Details

This data is used in the Potential Outcomes Causal Model chapter of Causal Inference: The Mixtape by Cunningham.

Source

Yule, G. Udny. 1899. 'An Investigation into the Causes of Changes in Pauperism in England, Chiefly During the Last Two Interensal Decades.' Journal of Royal Statistical Society 62: 249–95.

References

Cunningham. 2021. Causal Inference: The Mixtape. Yale Press. https://mixtape.scunning.com/index.html.


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