d.birthrates: Birthrates in Swiss Districts

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Birthrates in Swiss Districts

Description

Standardized fertility measure and socio-economic indicators for each of 182 districts of Switzerland at about 1888. This is an extended version of the swiss dataset of standard R.

Usage

  data("d.birthrates")
  data("d.birthratesVars")

Format

d.birthrates: A data frame with 182 observations on the following 25 variables.

fertility

Common standardizedfertility measure, see details

fertTotal

Alternative fertility measure

infantMort

Infant mortality

catholic

percentage of members of the catholic church

single24

percentage of women aged 20-24 who are single

single49

percentage of women aged 45-49 who are single

eAgric

Proportion male labor force in agriculture

eIndustry

Proportion male labor force in industry

eCommerce

Proportion male labor force in trade

eTransport

Proportion male labor force in transportation

eAdmin

Proportion male labor force in public service

german

percentage of German

french

percentage of French

italian

percentage of Italian

romansh

percentage of Romansh

gradeHigh

Prop. high grade in draftees exam

gradeLow

Propr. low grade in draftees exma

educHigh

Prop. draftees with > primary educ.

bornLocal

Proportion living in commune of birth

bornForeign

Proportion born in foreign country

sexratio

Sex ratio (M/F)

canton

Canton Name

district

District Name

altitude

altitude in three categories: low, medium, high

language

dominating language: german, french, italian, romansh

d.birthratesVars: Data.frame that contains the descriptions of the variables just read.

Details

?swiss says:
(paraphrasing Mosteller and Tukey):
Switzerland, in 1888, was entering a period known as the 'demographic transition'; i.e., its fertility was beginning to fall from the high level typical of underdeveloped countries.

The exact definition of fertility is as follows.
fertility = 100 * B_l/ sum m_i f_i, where
B_l = annual legitimate births, m_i = the number of married women in age interval i, and f_i = the fertility Hutterite women in the same age interval.
"Hutterite women" are women in a population that is known to be extremely fertile.
Stillbirths are included.

Source

https://opr.princeton.edu/archive/pefp/switz.aspx

References

see source

Examples

data(d.birthrates)
## maybe str(d.birthrates) ; plot(d.birthrates) ...

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