#### 8.2.58.65 tblish.dataset.swiss ¶

Static Method: `out =` swiss `()` ¶

  Swiss Fertility and Socioeconomic Indicators (1888) Data

  #### Description ¶

  Standardized fertility measure and socio-economic indicators for each of 47 French-speaking provinces of Switzerland at about 1888.

  #### Format ¶

  `Fertility`

    Ig, ‘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’).

  `InfantMortality`

    Live births who live less than 1 year.

  All variables but ‘Fertility’ give proportions of the population.

  #### Source ¶

  (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].

  #### 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.

  #### References ¶

  Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988). The New S Language. Monterey: Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.

  #### Examples ¶

      t = tblish.dataset.swiss;

      # TODO: Port linear model to Octave