On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the BrokenMarriage data set which pertains to Broken Marriage Data. The BrokenMarriage data set is found in the vcd R package. You can load the BrokenMarriage data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("BrokenMarriage"). This will load the data into a variable called BrokenMarriage. If R says the BrokenMarriage data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("vcd") 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 BrokenMarriage R data set. The size of this file is about 467 bytes.

Broken Marriage Data

Description

Data from the Danish Welfare Study about broken marriages or permanent relationships depending on gender and social rank.

Usage

data("BrokenMarriage")

Format

A data frame with 20 observations and 4 variables.

Freq

frequency.

gender

factor indicating gender (male, female).

rank

factor indicating social rank (I, II, III, IV, V).

broken

factor indicating whether the marriage or permanent relationship was broken (yes, no).

Source

E. B. Andersen (1991), The Statistical Analysis of Categorical Data, page 177.

References

E. B. Andersen (1991), The Statistical Analysis of Categorical Data. 2nd edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Examples

data("BrokenMarriage")
structable(~ ., data = BrokenMarriage)

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