Fertility {BSDA}

Fertility rates of all 50 states and DC

Description

Data for Exercise 1.125

Usage

Fertility

Format

A data frame/tibble with 51 observations on two variables

state

a character variable with values Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Colunbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland,Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missour, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming

rate

fertility rate (expected number of births during childbearing years)

Source

Population Reference Bureau.

References

Kitchens, L. J. (2003) Basic Statistics and Data Analysis. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, a division of Thomson Learning.

Examples

stem(Fertility$rate)
fivenum(Fertility$rate)
EDA(Fertility$rate)