RochdaleR Documentation

Rochdale Data

Description

Information on 665 households of Rochdale, Lancashire, UK. The study was conducted to identify influence factors on economical activity of wives.

Usage

data("Rochdale")

Format

A 8-dimensional array resulting from cross-tabulating 665 observations on 8 variables. The variables and their levels are as follows:

No Name Levels
1 EconActive yes, no
2 Age <38, >38
3 HusbandEmployed yes, no
4 Child yes, no
5 Education yes, no
6 HusbandEducation yes, no
7 Asian yes, no
8 HouseholdWorking yes, no

Note

Many observations are missing: only 91 out of all 256 combinations contain information.

Source

Whittaker (1990).

References

H. Hofmann (2003). Constructing and reading mosaicplots. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 43, 4, 565–580.

J. Whittaker (1990), Graphical Models on Applied Multivariate Statistics, Wiley, New York.

Examples

data("Rochdale")
mosaic(Rochdale)