1) Developing Data Products - Week 4 Course Project
author: Ali Nikseresht date: 25/08/2020
2) Introduction
This Shiny application shows a bar chart of Swiss Fertility and Socioeconomic Indicators (1888) Data.
The app then shows a bar chart with corresponding Province and number of Fertility and Socioeconomic Indicators.
More detail can be found at
3) Description
Standardized fertility measure and socio-economic indicators for each of 47 French-speaking provinces of Switzerland at about 1888.
4) Usage
swiss
5) Format
A data frame with 47 observations on 6 variables, each of which is in percent, i.e., in [0, 100].
[,1] Fertility Ig, ‘common standardized fertility measure’
[,2] Agriculture % of males involved in agriculture as occupation
[,3] Examination % draftees receiving highest mark on army examination
[,4] Education % education beyond primary school for draftees.
[,5] Catholic % ‘catholic’ (as opposed to ‘protestant’).
[,6] Infant.Mortality live births who live less than 1 year.
6) Details
All variables but ‘Fertility’ give proportions of the population.
(paraphrasing Mosteller and Tukey):
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.
Here, all variables are scaled to [0, 100], where in the original, all but “Catholic” were scaled to [0, 1].
7) Note
Files for all 182 districts in 1888 and other years have been available at https://opr.princeton.edu/archive/pefp/switz.aspx.
They state that variables Examination and Education are averages for 1887, 1888 and 1889.
8) 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 Unpublished data assembled under NICHD contract number No 1-HD-O-2077.”
9) References
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.
10) Examples
require(stats); require(graphics) pairs(swiss, panel = panel.smooth, main = “swiss data”, col = 3 + (swiss$Catholic > 50)) summary(lm(Fertility ~ . , data = swiss))
11) Sample Report when user selection = “Fertility”
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