United Kingdom Demographic Data

Description

This dataset comes from the Guardian's Data Blog and includes five financial demographic variables.

Usage

ukdemo

Format

A data frame with 12 observations on the following 6 variables.

region

Region in the United Kingdom

debt

Average regional debt, not including mortgages, in pounds

unemployment

Percent unemployment

house

Average house price, in pounds

pay

Average hourly pay, in pounds

rpi

Retail price index, which is standardized to 100 for the entire UK, and lower index scores correspond to lower prices

Source

The data was described in the Guardian Data Blog: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/interactive/2011/oct/27/debt-money-expert-facts, retrieved 2011-11-01.

References

Guardian Data Blog

Examples

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(ukdemo, aes(x = pay, y = rpi)) +
  geom_point() +
  labs(x = "Average hourly pay", y = "Retail price index")