SwissInhabitants {ABCanalysis}

SwissInhabitants in 1900

Description

Number of inhabitants in the 2896 villages of Switzerland in the year 1900.

Usage

data("SwissInhabitants")

Details

This data set consists of the number of inhabitants in the 2896 communes, i.e. cities and villages, in the year 1900. The individual count is the total number of persons living in the particular commune. The data set is unordered for anonymity reasons. The data set has been used as part of a larger data set to identify patterns of concentration in Switzerland (see reference).

Source

Schuler,M., Ullmann, D. Eidgenossische Volkszahlung:Bevoelkerungsentwicklung der Gemeinden, Bundesamt fur Statistik, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 2002

References

Behnisch, M., Ultsch, A.: Population Patterns in Switzerland 1850-2000, in: Gaul, W. et al (Eds), Advances in Data Analysis, Data Handling and Business Intelligence, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 163-173, 2010.

Examples

data(SwissInhabitants)
## maybe str(SwissInhabitants) ; plot(SwissInhabitants) ...