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Data from A.-M. Guerry, "Essay on the Moral Statistics of France"
Description
Andre-Michel Guerry (1833) was the first to systematically collect and analyze
social data on such things as crime, literacy and suicide with the view
to determining social laws and the relations among these variables.
The Guerry data frame comprises a collection of 'moral variables' on the 86
departments of France around 1830. A few additional variables have been
added from other sources.
Usage
data(Guerry)
Format
A data frame with 86 observations (the departments of France) on the following 23 variables.
dept
Department ID: Standard numbers for the departments, except for Corsica (200)
Region
Region of France ('N'='North', 'S'='South', 'E'='East', 'W'='West', 'C'='Central'). Corsica is coded as NA
Department
Department name: Departments are named according to usage in 1830, but without accents.
A factor with levels AinAisneAllier ... VosgesYonne
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. An ordered factor with levels 1:Sm < 2:Med < 3:Lg
Wealth
Per capita tax on personal property. A ranked index based on taxes on personal and movable property per inhabitant.
Source: A1
Commerce
Commerce and Industry, measured by the rank of the number of patents / population. Source: A1
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)
Donations to the clergy. A ranked ratio 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)
Lottery
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)
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)
Instruction
Instruction. Ranks recorded from Guerry's map of Instruction. Note: this is inversely related to Literacy (as defined here)
Prostitutes
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
Distance
Distance to Paris (km). Distance of each department centroid to the centroid of the Seine (Paris)
Source: cakculated from department centroids
Area
Area (1000 km^2). Source: Angeville (1836)
Pop1831
1831 population. Population in 1831, taken from Angeville (1836), Essai sur la Statistique de la Population français, in 1000s
Details
Note that most of the variables (e.g., Crime_pers) are scaled so that 'more is better' morally.
Values for the quantitative variables displayed on Guerry's maps were taken from Table A2 in the
English translation of Guerry (1833) by Whitt and Reinking.
Values for the ranked variables were taken from Table A1, with some corrections applied.
The maximum is indicated by rank 1, and the minimum by rank 86.
Source
Angeville, A. (1836). Essai sur la Statistique de la Population française Paris: F. Doufour.
Guerry, A.-M. (1833). Essai sur la statistique morale de la France Paris: Crochard.
English translation: Hugh P. Whitt and Victor W. Reinking, Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
Parent-Duchatelet, A. (1836). De la prostitution dans la ville de Paris, 3rd ed, 1857, p. 32, 36
References
Dray, S. and Jombart, T. (2009). A Revisit Of Guerry's Data: Introducing
Spatial Constraints In Multivariate Analysis. Unpublished manuscript.
Brunsdon, C. and Dykes, J. (2007).
Geographically weighted visualization: interactive graphics
for scale-varying exploratory analysis.
Geographical Information Science Research Conference (GISRUK 07),
NUI Maynooth, Ireland, April, 2007.
Friendly, M. (2007). A.-M. Guerry's Moral Statistics of France: Challenges for Multivariable Spatial Analysis.
Statistical Science, 22, 368-399.
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> library(Guerry)
> png(filename="/home/ddbj/snapshot/RGM3/R_CC/result/Guerry/Guerry.Rd_%03d_medium.png", width=480, height=480)
> ### Name: Guerry
> ### Title: Data from A.-M. Guerry, "Essay on the Moral Statistics of
> ### France"
> ### Aliases: Guerry
> ### Keywords: datasets
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> ### ** Examples
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> data(Guerry)
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