marital.nz {VGAM} | R Documentation |
New Zealand Marital Data
Description
Some marital data mainly from a large NZ company collected in the early 1990s.
Usage
data(marital.nz)
Format
A data frame with 6053 observations on the following 3 variables.
age
a numeric vector, age in years
ethnicity
a factor with levels
European
Maori
Other
Polynesian
. Only Europeans are included in the data set.mstatus
a factor with levels
Divorced/Separated
,Married/Partnered
,Single
,Widowed
.
Details
This is a subset of a data set collected from a self-administered questionnaire administered in a large New Zealand workforce observational study conducted during 1992–3. The data were augmented by a second study consisting of retirees. The data can be considered a reasonable representation of the white male New Zealand population in the early 1990s.
Source
Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
References
Examples
summary(marital.nz)