census: Census File, Switzerland 2000

censusR Documentation

Census File, Switzerland 2000

Description

The file contains the cenus information which was retrieved from the BfS (Federal Statistical Office). It consists of three variables; age (4 groups), gender, and education (6 groups) - see details for more information.

Usage

data(census)

Format

The format is: List of 2 Elements

$ census48.MAZH2013: Matrix 48*26 (48 ideal types, 6*4*2) and 26 cantons. The 26 columns represent the 26 cantons, the 48 rows represent all possible combinations.

group educ age gender
row 1: 1 1 1
row 2: 1 1 2
row 3: 1 2 1
row 4: 1 2 2
row 5: 1 3 1
row 6: 1 3 2
row 7: 1 4 1
row 8: 1 4 2
row 9: 2 1 1
....
row 46: 6 3 2
row 47: 6 4 1
row 48: 6 4 2

$ INFO : see census$INFO

Details

Education: (1 - if only mandatory school or NA), (2 - Apprenticeship), (3 - High School Diploma or teachers' school), (4 - Higher education, germ: hoehere Fachausbildung), (5 - higher education 2, germ: hoehere Fachschule), (6 - Federal technical Institutes or University of apllied sciences, University). Age (1: 0-34, 2: 35-49, 3: 50-64, 4: 65-). Woman (0 man, 1 woman).

Source

BfS. Bundesamt fuer Statistik.

References

Bundesamt fuer Statistik (BfS). 2000. Eidgenoessische Volkszaehlung 2000; Abschlussbericht zur Volkszaehlung.

Examples

 # How many young men with no higher education than mandatory schooling live in 
 # the cantons  ZH, BE, and LU?
 data(census)
 census$census48.MAZH2013[1:3,1]		# 1st column is ZH

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