On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Robey data set which pertains to Fertility and Contraception. The Robey data set is found in the car R package. You can load the Robey data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Robey"). This will load the data into a variable called Robey. If R says the Robey data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("car") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Robey R data set. The size of this file is about 1,285 bytes.

Fertility and Contraception

Description

The Robey data frame has 50 rows and 3 columns. The observations are developing nations around 1990.

Usage

Robey

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

region

A factor with levels: Africa; Asia, Asia and Pacific; Latin.Amer, Latin America and Caribbean; Near.East, Near East and North Africa.

tfr

Total fertility rate (children per woman).

contraceptors

Percent of contraceptors among married women of childbearing age.

Source

Robey, B., Shea, M. A., Rutstein, O. and Morris, L. (1992) The reproductive revolution: New survey findings. Population Reports. Technical Report M-11.

References

Fox, J. (2008) Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models, Second Edition. Sage.

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.