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\name{swiss}
\docType{data}
\alias{swiss}
\title{Swiss Fertility and Socioeconomic Indicators (1888) Data}
\description{
  Standardized fertility measure and socioeconomic indicators for each
  of 47 French-speaking provinces of Switzerland at about 1888.
}
\usage{swiss}
\format{
  A data frame with 47 observations on 6 variables, \emph{each} of which
  is in percent, i.e., in \eqn{[0, 100]}.

  \tabular{rll}{
    [,1] \tab \code{Fertility} \tab \eqn{I_g}{Ig},
    \sQuote{common standardized fertility measure}\cr
    [,2] \tab \code{Agriculture} \tab \% of males involved in agriculture
    as occupation\cr
    [,3] \tab \code{Examination} \tab \% draftees receiving highest mark
    on army examination\cr
    [,4] \tab \code{Education} \tab \% education beyond primary school for draftees.\cr
    [,5] \tab \code{Catholic} \tab \% \sQuote{catholic} (as opposed to \sQuote{protestant}).\cr
    [,6] \tab \code{Infant.Mortality} \tab live births who live less than 1
    year.
  }

  All variables but \code{Fertility} give proportions of the
  population.
}
\details{
  (paraphrasing \I{Mosteller} and \I{Tukey}):

  Switzerland, in 1888, was entering a period known as the
  \emph{demographic transition}; i.e., its fertility was beginning to
  fall from the high level typical of underdeveloped countries.

  The data collected are for 47 French-speaking \dQuote{provinces} at
  about 1888.

  Here, all variables are scaled to \eqn{[0, 100]}, where in the
  original, all but \code{Catholic} were scaled to \eqn{[0, 1]}.
}
\source{
  Project \dQuote{16P5}, pages 549--551 in

  \bibshow{R:Mosteller+Tukey:1977}

  indicating their source as
  \dQuote{Data used by permission of \I{Franice van de Walle}. Office of
  Population Research, Princeton University, 1976.  Unpublished data
  assembled under NICHD contract number No \I{1-HD-O-2077}.}
}
\references{
  \bibshow{R:Becker+Chambers+Wilks:1988}
}
\note{
  Files for all 182 districts in 1888 and other years have been available
  at \verb{https://oprdata.princeton.edu/archive/pefp/switz.aspx}.
  While the \abbr{OPR} (Office of Population Research at Princeton University)
  does not seem to provide these anymore,
  a html-simplified copy of the information page is at
  \url{https://www.r-project.org/doc/reports/OPR_DataArchive_switz.html}.

  They state that variables \code{Examination} and \code{Education}
  are averages for 1887, 1888 and 1889.
}
\examples{
require(stats); require(graphics)
pairs(swiss, panel = panel.smooth, main = "swiss data",
      col = 3 + (swiss$Catholic > 50))
summary(lm(Fertility ~ . , data = swiss))
}
\keyword{datasets}