literacy: literacy data

In jrnold/bps5data: Datasets from The Basic Practice of Statistics, 5th ed.

Description

Dataset literacy The Basic Practice of Statistics, 5th edition.

Usage

data("literacy")

Format

\Sexpr[results=rd]{bps5data:::doc_data("literacy", variables = FALSE)}

Country

Country

Total

Literacy rate (percent)

Men

Literacy rate, men (percent)

Women

Literacy rate, woman (percent)

Details

Adult literacy rates (percent) for 139 countries. For men, women, and overall. A person is literate if he or she can both read and write simple statements. From the United Nations Statistics Division, at unstats.un.org.

Source

http://bcs.whfreeman.com/bps5e/content/cat_110/bps5e_large_datasets.zip

References

Moore, David S. 2009. The Basic Practice of Statistics. 5th edition. New York: W. H. Freeman.

See Also

Other large datasets from BPS 5th ed.: bliss; call; class; concept; education; floridavote; foodsafety; income; newt; reading; verizon

jrnold/bps5data documentation built on May 19, 2019, 11:55 p.m.