cities {DAAG}

Populations of Major Canadian Cities (1992-96)

Description

Population estimates for several Canadian cities.

Usage

cities

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

CITY

a factor, consisting of the city names

REGION

a factor with 5 levels (ATL=Atlantic, ON=Ontario, QC=Quebec, PR=Prairies, WEST=Alberta and British Columbia) representing the location of the cities

POP1992

a numeric vector giving population in 1000's for 1992

POP1993

a numeric vector giving population in 1000's for 1993

POP1994

a numeric vector giving population in 1000's for 1994

POP1995

a numeric vector giving population in 1000's for 1995

POP1996

a numeric vector giving population in 1000's for 1996

Source

Statistics Canada

Examples

cities$have <- factor((cities$REGION=="ON")|(cities$REGION=="WEST"))
plot(POP1996~POP1992, data=cities, col=as.integer(cities$have))