life expectancy and GDP (2008) for EU-countries

Description

Social-economic data for compositional regression.

Format

A data set on 27 compositions on 9 variables.

Details

• country country

• agriculture GDP on agriculture, hunting, forestry, fishing (ISIC A-B, x1)

• manufacture GDP on mining, manufacturing, utilities (ISIC C-E, x2)

• construction GDP on construction (ISIC F, x3)

• wholesales GDP on wholesale, retail trade, restaurants and hotels (ISIC G-H, x4)

• transport GDP on transport, storage and communication (ISIC I, x5)

• other GDP on other activities (ISIC J-P, x6)

• lifeExpMen life expectancy for men and women

• lifeExpWomen life expectancy for men and women

Author(s)

conversion to R by Karel Hron and Matthias Templ matthias.templ@tuwien.ac.at

Source

http://www.ec.europa.eu/eurostat and http://unstats.un.org/unsd

References

K. Hron, P. Filzmoser, K. Thompson (2012). Linear regression with compositional explanatory variables. Journal of Applied Statistics, Volume 39, Issue 5, 2012.

Examples

data(lifeExpGdp)
str(lifeExpGdp)