census: Census File, Switzerland 2000
In MrPzurich2013: MrP functions for MA class Zurich 2013

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

1	data(census)

The format is: List of 2 $ census48.MAZH2013: Matrix 48*26 (48 ideal types, 6*4*2) and 26 cantons. $ INFO : see census$INFO

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), (7 - University). Age (1: 0-34, 2: 35-49, 3: 50-64, 4: 64-). Woman (0 man, 1 woman).

BfS. Bundesamt fuer Statistik.

Bundesamt fuer Statistik (BfS). 2000. Eidgenoessische Volkszaehlung 2000; Abschlussbericht zur Volkszaehlung. See also http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/infothek/erhebungen__quellen/blank/blank/vz/uebersicht.html.

 # 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