BigMac2003: World cities data

In alr4: Data to Accompany Applied Linear Regression 4th Edition

Description

Prices in many world cities from a 2003 Union Bank of Switzerland report.

Format

This data frame uses the name of the city as row names, and contains the following columns:

BigMac

Minutes of labor to purchase a Big Mac

Bread

Minutes of labor to purchase 1 kg of bread

Rice

Minutes of labor to purchase 1 kg of rice

FoodIndex

Food price index (Zurich=100)

Bus

Cost in US dollars for a one-way 10 km ticket

Apt

Normal rent (US dollars) of a 3 room apartment

TeachGI

Primary teacher's gross income, 1000s of US dollars

TeachNI

Primary teacher's net income, 1000s of US dollars

TaxRate

Tax rate paid by a primary teacher

TeachHours

Primary teacher's hours of work per week:

Source

Union Bank of Switzerland report, Prices and Earnings Around the Globe (2003 version).

References

Weisberg, S. (2014). Applied Linear Regression, 4th edition. Hoboken NJ: Wiley.

Examples

head(BigMac2003)

Example output

Loading required package: car
Loading required package: effects
Loading required package: carData

Attaching package: 'carData'

The following objects are masked from 'package:car':

    Guyer, UN, Vocab

lattice theme set by effectsTheme()
See ?effectsTheme for details.
          BigMac Bread Rice FoodIndex  Bus Apt TeachGI TeachNI TaxRate
Amsterdam     16     9    9      65.9 2.00 890    34.3    20.5 40.2332
Athens        21    12   19      63.5 0.61 620    19.5    15.9 18.4615
Auckland      19    19    9      55.4 1.57 780    22.0    16.1 26.8182
Bangkok       50    42   25      46.4 0.47 120     4.2     4.0  4.7619
Barcelona     22    19   10      62.9 0.91 590    25.5    20.1 21.1765
Basel         15     7    7      98.4 2.34 930    78.5    57.6 26.6242
          TeachHours
Amsterdam         39
Athens            29
Auckland          40
Bangkok           35
Barcelona         39
Basel             35

alr4 documentation built on May 2, 2019, 6:40 p.m.