Titanic_passengers: Passengers and crew on RMS Titanic

In dtkaplan/SDSdata: Data and utilities for the book Statistics for Data Science

Passengers and crew on RMS Titanic

Description

Passengers and crew on RMS Titanic

Usage

data(Titanic_crew)

Format

Titanic_passengers: A data.frame object with one row for each passenger

• class: The passenger's cabin class. Values first, second, or steerage.

• survived: Whether the passenger survived the sinking. Values: 1 if survived, 0 otherwise

• sex: the passenger's sex, female or male

• age: the age of the passenger (in years). Infants under 1 have a fractional year, others are truncated or rounded to the nearest integer.

• sibsp: the number of siblings (including the spouse, if any) travelling with the passenger

• parch: the number of parents or children travelling with the passenger.

• fare: the fare paid for the passenger's ticket, GBP

• embarked: where the passenger got on to the Titanic: Southhampton, Cherbourg, Queenstown

• boat: the life boat into which the passenger was first placed. A handful of passengers were transferred from one boat to another. This variable is the first boat.

• body: the number assigned when the body was recovered. Empty for survivors or those whose body was never found.

• cabin: the passenger's cabin number

• ticket: the passenger's ticket number. (Passengers travelling together might have shared a ticket.)

• destination: the home or destination town for the passenger

• name: The passenger's name

Details

The Titanic_passengers data frame is a roster of 1309 passengers on the steamship Titanic. At the time of the sinking, there were approximately 2400 people on board the ship. Of these, approximately 1330 were passengers, together with approximately 895 crew. The passenger list includes approximately 42 people who were servants of other passengers. According to many reports, 712 people survived the sinking. (See, e.g. https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivors/.) The survived column, combining Titanic_passengers and Titanic_crew lists only 628 survivors. The source of the discrepancy is unknown.

Source

http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/pub/Main/DataSets/titanic3.xls There are a number of other potential sources for passenger lists, for instance https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-passenger-lists/.

See Also

Titanic_crew

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