Description:

Standardized fertility measure and socio-economic indicators for each of 47 French-speaking provinces of Switzerland at about 1888. Switzerland, in 1888, was entering a period known as the 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 “provinces” at about 1888.

Statistics:

Fertility:common standardized fertility measure
Agriculture: % of males involved in agriculture as occupation
Examination: % draftees receiving highest mark on army examination
Education: % education beyond primary school for draftees.
Catholic: % ‘catholic’ (as opposed to ‘protestant’).
Infant.Mortality: live births who live less than 1 year.

Main Table:

	Fertility	Agriculture	Examination	Education	Catholic	Infant.Mortality
Courtelary	80.2	17.0	15	12	9.96	22.2
Delemont	83.1	45.1	6	9	84.84	22.2
Franches-Mnt	92.5	39.7	5	5	93.40	20.2
Moutier	85.8	36.5	12	7	33.77	20.3
Neuveville	76.9	43.5	17	15	5.16	20.6
Porrentruy	76.1	35.3	9	7	90.57	26.6
Broye	83.8	70.2	16	7	92.85	23.6
Glane	92.4	67.8	14	8	97.16	24.9
Gruyere	82.4	53.3	12	7	97.67	21.0
Sarine	82.9	45.2	16	13	91.38	24.4
Veveyse	87.1	64.5	14	6	98.61	24.5
Aigle	64.1	62.0	21	12	8.52	16.5
Aubonne	66.9	67.5	14	7	2.27	19.1
Avenches	68.9	60.7	19	12	4.43	22.7
Cossonay	61.7	69.3	22	5	2.82	18.7
Echallens	68.3	72.6	18	2	24.20	21.2
Grandson	71.7	34.0	17	8	3.30	20.0
Lausanne	55.7	19.4	26	28	12.11	20.2
La Vallee	54.3	15.2	31	20	2.15	10.8
Lavaux	65.1	73.0	19	9	2.84	20.0
Morges	65.5	59.8	22	10	5.23	18.0
Moudon	65.0	55.1	14	3	4.52	22.4
Nyone	56.6	50.9	22	12	15.14	16.7
Orbe	57.4	54.1	20	6	4.20	15.3
Oron	72.5	71.2	12	1	2.40	21.0
Payerne	74.2	58.1	14	8	5.23	23.8
Paysd’enhaut	72.0	63.5	6	3	2.56	18.0
Rolle	60.5	60.8	16	10	7.72	16.3
Vevey	58.3	26.8	25	19	18.46	20.9
Yverdon	65.4	49.5	15	8	6.10	22.5
Conthey	75.5	85.9	3	2	99.71	15.1
Entremont	69.3	84.9	7	6	99.68	19.8
Herens	77.3	89.7	5	2	100.00	18.3
Martigwy	70.5	78.2	12	6	98.96	19.4
Monthey	79.4	64.9	7	3	98.22	20.2
St Maurice	65.0	75.9	9	9	99.06	17.8
Sierre	92.2	84.6	3	3	99.46	16.3
Sion	79.3	63.1	13	13	96.83	18.1
Boudry	70.4	38.4	26	12	5.62	20.3
La Chauxdfnd	65.7	7.7	29	11	13.79	20.5
Le Locle	72.7	16.7	22	13	11.22	18.9
Neuchatel	64.4	17.6	35	32	16.92	23.0
Val de Ruz	77.6	37.6	15	7	4.97	20.0
ValdeTravers	67.6	18.7	25	7	8.65	19.5
V. De Geneve	35.0	1.2	37	53	42.34	18.0
Rive Droite	44.7	46.6	16	29	50.43	18.2
Rive Gauche	42.8	27.7	22	29	58.33	19.3

Maximum Value:

	Maximum_Value
Fertility	92.5
Agriculture	89.7
Examination	37.0
Education	53.0
Catholic	100.0
Infant.Mortality	26.6

Minimum Value:

	Min_value
Fertility	35.00
Agriculture	1.20
Examination	3.00
Education	1.00
Catholic	2.15
Infant.Mortality	10.80

Avarage Value:

	Mean_Value
Fertility	70.14255
Agriculture	50.65957
Examination	16.48936
Education	10.97872
Catholic	41.14383
Infant.Mortality	19.94255

Total Value

	Total_Value
Fertility	3296.70
Agriculture	2381.00
Examination	775.00
Education	516.00
Catholic	1933.76
Infant.Mortality	937.30

Graph

Education vs Examination

Swiss Variable vs Total Value

Summary

##   Provinces           Fertility      Agriculture     Examination   
##  Length:47          Min.   :35.00   Min.   : 1.20   Min.   : 3.00  
##  Class :character   1st Qu.:64.70   1st Qu.:35.90   1st Qu.:12.00  
##  Mode  :character   Median :70.40   Median :54.10   Median :16.00  
##                     Mean   :70.14   Mean   :50.66   Mean   :16.49  
##                     3rd Qu.:78.45   3rd Qu.:67.65   3rd Qu.:22.00  
##                     Max.   :92.50   Max.   :89.70   Max.   :37.00  
##    Education        Catholic       Infant.Mortality
##  Min.   : 1.00   Min.   :  2.150   Min.   :10.80   
##  1st Qu.: 6.00   1st Qu.:  5.195   1st Qu.:18.15   
##  Median : 8.00   Median : 15.140   Median :20.00   
##  Mean   :10.98   Mean   : 41.144   Mean   :19.94   
##  3rd Qu.:12.00   3rd Qu.: 93.125   3rd Qu.:21.70   
##  Max.   :53.00   Max.   :100.000   Max.   :26.60

Source

Project “16P5”, pages 549–551 in

Mosteller, F. and Tukey, J. W. (1977) Data Analysis and Regression: A Second Course in Statistics. Addison-Wesley, Reading Mass.

indicating their source as “Data used by permission of Franice van de Walle. Office of Population Research, Princeton University, 1976. Unpublished data assembled under NICHD contract number No 1-HD-O-2077.”

Swiss Fertility and Socioeconomic Indicators (1888) Data

2018-11-25