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Data from A.-M. Guerry, "Essay on the Moral Statistics of France"
Description
Andre-Michel Guerry (1833) was the first to systematically collect and analyze social data on such things as crime, literacy and suicide with the view to determining social laws and the relations among these variables.
The Guerry data frame comprises a collection of 'moral variables' on the 86 departments of France around 1830. A few additional variables have been added from other sources.
Format A data frame with 86 observations (the departments of France) on the following 23 variables.
dept Department ID: Standard numbers for the departments, except for Corsica (200)
Region Region of France ('N'='North', 'S'='South', 'E'='East', 'W'='West', 'C'='Central'). Corsica is coded as NA
Department Department name: Departments are named according to usage in 1830, but without accents. A factor with levels Ain Aisne Allier ... Vosges Yonne
Crime_pers Population per Crime against persons. Source: A2 (Compte general, 1825-1830)
Crime_prop Population per Crime against property. Source: A2 (Compte general, 1825-1830)
Literacy Percent Read & Write: Percent of military conscripts who can read and write. Source: A2
Donations Donations to the poor. Source: A2 (Bulletin des lois)
Infants Population per illegitimate birth. Source: A2 (Bureaau des Longitudes, 1817-1821)
Suicides Population per suicide. Source: A2 (Compte general, 1827-1830)
MainCity Size of principal city ('1:Sm', '2:Med', '3:Lg'), used as a surrogate for poulation density. Large refers to the top 10, small to the bottom 10; all the rest are classed Medium. Source: A1. An ordered factor with levels 1:Sm < 2:Med < 3:Lg
Wealth Per capita tax on personal property. A ranked index based on taxes on personal and movable property per inhabitant. Source: A1
Commerce Commerce and Industry, measured by the rank of the number of patents / population. Source: A1
Clergy Distribution of clergy, measured by the rank of the number of Catholic priests in active service / population. Source: A1 (Almanach officiel du clergy, 1829)
Crime_parents Crimes against parents, measured by the rank of the ratio of crimes against parents to all crimes– Average for the years 1825-1830. Source: A1 (Compte general)
Infanticide Infanticides per capita. A ranked ratio of number of infanticides to population– Average for the years 1825-1830. Source: A1 (Compte general)
Donation_clergy Donations to the clergy. A ranked ratio of the number of bequests and donations inter vivios to population– Average for the years 1815-1824. Source: A1 (Bull. des lois, ordunn. d'autorisation)
Lottery Per capita wager on Royal Lottery. Ranked ratio of the proceeds bet on the royal lottery to population— Average for the years 1822-1826. Source: A1 (Compte rendus par le ministre des finances)
Desertion Military disertion, ratio of the number of young soldiers accused of desertion to the force of the military contingent, minus the deficit produced by the insufficiency of available billets– Average of the years 1825-1827. Source: A1 (Compte du ministere du guerre, 1829 etat V)
Instruction Instruction. Ranks recorded from Guerry's map of Instruction. Note: this is inversely related to Literacy (as defined here)
Usage
guerry
Format
An object of class data.frame with 86 rows and 23 columns.
Source
Angeville, A. (1836). Essai sur la Statistique de la Population fran?aise Paris: F. Doufour.
Guerry, A.-M. (1833). Essai sur la statistique morale de la France Paris: Crochard. English translation: Hugh P. Whitt and Victor W. Reinking, Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
Parent-Duchatelet, A. (1836). De la prostitution dans la ville de Paris, 3rd ed, 1857, p. 32, 36
References
Dray, S. and Jombart, T. (2011). A Revisit Of Guerry's Data: Introducing Spatial Constraints In Multivariate Analysis. The Annals of Applied Statistics, Vol. 5, No. 4, 2278-2299. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.6485.pdf, DOI: 10.1214/10-AOAS356.
Brunsdon, C. and Dykes, J. (2007). Geographically weighted visualization: interactive graphics for scale-varying exploratory analysis. Geographical Information Science Research Conference (GISRUK 07), NUI Maynooth, Ireland, April, 2007.
Friendly, M. (2007). A.-M. Guerry's Moral Statistics of France: Challenges for Multivariable Spatial Analysis. Statistical Science, 22, 368-399 Friendly, M. (2007). Data from A.-M. Guerry, Essay on the Moral Statistics of France (1833), http://datavis.ca/gallery/guerry/guerrydat.html.
