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Gapminder data
Description
The gapminder data contains data on life expectancy and GDP per capita by country and year.
Usage
gapminder
Format
A data frame with 1704 rows and 6 variables
- country
The country
- continent
The continent the country is in
- year
The year data was collected. Ranges from 1952 to 2007 in increments of 5 years
- lifeExp
Life expectancy at birth, in years
- pop
Population
- gdpPercap
GDP per capita (US$, inflation-adjusted)
Details
This data set is the same one found in the gapminder package in R as of 2020. This data set is used in the Fixed Effects chapter of The Effect.
Source
https://www.gapminder.org/data/
Jennifer Bryan (2017). gapminder: Data from Gapminder. R package version 0.3.0. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=gapminder
References
Huntington-Klein. 2021. The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality. https://theeffectbook.net.