pauperism_year: Pauperism in England, 1871-1891 (Yearly Data)
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Data on pauperism used in the 1899 article, “An Investigation into the Causes of Changes in Pauperism in England”, by Udny Yule, which is the first use of multiple regression. The data contains Yearly data on pauperism, the proportion of paupers provided for at home vs. the work house, population, and population over 65 for the Poor Law Unions of England for the years: 1871, 1881, and 1891.

1	pauperism_year

A data frame with 1797 rows and 38 columns.

name	type	description
`ID`	`"numeric"`	ID
`year`	`"integer"`	Year
`adultchabI`	`"numeric"`	Ratio of Adult to Child Able-Bodied In-Door Paupers
`adultchabO`	`"numeric"`	Ratio of Adult to Child Able-Bodied Out-Door Paupers
`adultchnotabI`	`"numeric"`	Ratio of Adult to Child Not Able-Bodied In-Door Paupers
`adultchnotabO`	`"numeric"`	Ratio of Adult to Child Not Able-Bodied Out-Door Paupers
`ChABI`	`"numeric"`	Child Able-Bodied In-Door Paupers
`ChABO`	`"numeric"`	Child Able-Bodied Out-Door Paupers
`ChNotABI`	`"numeric"`	Child Not Able-Bodied In-Door Paupers
`ChNotABO`	`"numeric"`	Child Not Able-Bodied Out-Door Paupers
`F65`	`"numeric"`	Females Aged 65+ in the Population
`FABI`	`"numeric"`	Female Able-Bodied In-Door Paupers
`FABO`	`"numeric"`	Female Able-Bodied Out-Door Paupers
`FNotABI`	`"numeric"`	Female Not Able-Bodied In-Door Paupers
`FNotABO`	`"numeric"`	Female Not Able-Bodied Out-Door Paupers
`M65`	`"numeric"`	Males Aged 65+ in the Population
`MABI`	`"numeric"`	Male Able-Bodied In-Door Paupers
`MABO`	`"numeric"`	Male Able-Bodied Out-Door Paupers
`mfabI`	`"numeric"`	Ratio of Male to Female Able-Bodied In-Door Paupers
`mfabO`	`"numeric"`	Ratio of Male to Female Able-Bodied Out-Door Paupers
`mfnotabI`	`"numeric"`	Ratio of Male to Female Not Able-Bodied In-Door Paupers
`mfnotabO`	`"numeric"`	Ratio of Male to Female Not Able-Bodied Out-Door Paupers
`MNotABI`	`"numeric"`	Male Not Able-Bodied In-Door Paupers
`MNotABO`	`"numeric"`	Male Not Able-Bodied Out-Door Paupers
`outratio`	`"numeric"`	Ratio of Out-Door Paupers to In-Door Paupers
`outratiodiff`	`"numeric"`	Ratio of `outratio91` to `outratio81`
`pauper`	`"numeric"`	Proportion of Paupers in the Population
`pauper2`	`"numeric"`	Proportion of Paupers in the Population correcting for border changes.
`paupratiodiff`	`"numeric"`	Ratio of Pauperism Proportion to previous decade
`Popn`	`"numeric"`	Population (from Census Population Abstracts)
`Popn2`	`"numeric"`	Population allowing for boundary changes. This is the population number used by Yule.
`PopnF`	`"numeric"`	Female Population
`PopnM`	`"numeric"`	Male Population
`popratiodiff`	`"numeric"`	Ratio of Population to previous decade
`PropF65`	`"numeric"`	Proportion of females aged 65+ in the female population
`PropM65`	`"numeric"`	Proportion of males aged 65+ in the Male Population
`Prop65`	`"numeric"`	Proportion of the population Aged 65+
`oldratiodiff`	`"numeric"`	Ratio of the proportion of Population Aged 65+ to the previous decade.