guerry <- read.csv("http://www.datavis.ca/gallery/guerryguerry.csv", na.strings=" ")
Several other variables were added from the sources indicated.
| Num | Variable | Type | Label / Description / Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dept | Num | Department ID Standard numbers for the departments, except for Corsica (200). |
| 2 | Region | Char(1) | Region Region of France ('N'='North', 'S'='South', 'E'='East', 'W'='West', 'C'='Central'). Corsica is coded as ' ' (missing, NA) |
| 3 | Department | Char(25) | Department name Departments are named according to usage in 1830. See depts.txt for alternative encodings of departement names. |
| 4 | Crime_pers | Num | Pop. per Crime against persons Source: A2 (Compte général, 1825-1830) |
| 5 | Crime_prop | Num | Pop. per Crime against property Source: A2 (Compte général, 1825-1830) |
| 6 | Literacy | Num | Percent Read & Write Percent of military conscripts who can read and write Source: A2 |
| 7 | Donations | Num | Donations to the poor Source: A2 (Bulletin des lois) |
| 8 | Infants | Num | Pop. per illegitimate birth Source: A2 ( Bureaau des Longitudes, 1817-1821) |
| 9 | Suicides | Num | Pop. per suicide Source: A2 (Compte général, 1827-1830) |
| 10 | MainCity | Char(5) | Size of principal city Size of principal city ('1:Sm', '2:Med', '3:Lg'), used as a surrogate for poulation density. Large refers to the top 10, small to the bottom 10; all the rest are classed Medium. Source: A1 |
| 11 | Wealth | Rank | Per capita tax on personal property A ranked index based on taxes on personal and movable property per inhabitant Source: A1 |
| 12 | Commerce | Rank | Commerce & Industry Commerce and Industry, measured by the rank of the number of patents / population Source: A1 |
| 13 | Clergy | Rank | Distribution of clergy Distribution of clergy, measured by the rank of the number of Catholic priests in active service / population Source: A1 (Almanach officiel du clergy, 1829) |
| 14 | Crime_parents | Rank | Crimes against parents Crimes against parents, measured by the rank of the ratio of crimes against parents to all crimes-- Average for the years 1825-1830 Source: A1 (Compte général) |
| 15 | Infanticide | Rank | Infanticides per capita Ranked ratio of number of infanticides to population-- Average for the years 1825-1830 Source: A1 (Compte général) |
| 16 | Donation_clergy | Rank | Donations to the clergy Ranked ratios of the number of bequests and donations inter vivios to population-- Average for the years 1815-1824 Source: A1 (Bull. des lois, ordunn. d'autorisation) |
| 17 | Lottery | Rank | Per capita wager on Royal Lottery Ranked ratio of the proceeds bet on the royal lottery to population--- Average for the years 1822-1826 Source: A1 (Compte rendus par le ministre des finances) |
| 18 | Desertion | Rank | Military desertion Military disertion, ratio of the number of young soldiers accused of desertion to the force of the military contingent, minus the deficit produced by the insufficiency of available billets-- Average of the years 1825-1827. Source: A1 (Compte du ministere du guerre, 1829 etat V) |
| 19 | Instruction | Rank | Instruction Ranks recorded from Guerry's map of Instruction. Note: this is inversely related to literacy (as defined here) |
| 20 | Prostitutes | Num | Prostitutes in Paris Number of prostitutes registered in Paris from 1816 to 1834, classified by the department of their birth Source: Parent-Duchatelet (1836), De la prostitution en Paris |
| 21 | Distance | Num | Distance to Paris (km) Distance of each department centroid to the centroid of the Seine (Paris) Source: cakculated from department centroids |
| 22 | Area | Num | Area (1000 km^2) Source: Angeville (1836) |
| 23 | Pop1831 | Num | 1831 population Population in 1831, taken from Angeville (1836), Essai sur la Statistique de la Population français in 1000s |