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World cities data
Description
Prices in many world cities from a 2003 Union Bank of Switzerland report.
Format
This data frame uses the name of the city as row names, and contains the following columns:
- BigMac
-
Minutes of labor to purchase a Big Mac
- Bread
-
Minutes of labor to purchase 1 kg of bread
- Rice
-
Minutes of labor to purchase 1 kg of rice
- FoodIndex
-
Food price index (Zurich=100)
- Bus
-
Cost in US dollars for a one-way 10 km ticket
- Apt
-
Normal rent (US dollars) of a 3 room apartment
- TeachGI
-
Primary teacher's gross income, 1000s of US dollars
- TeachNI
-
Primary teacher's net income, 1000s of US dollars
- TaxRate
-
Tax rate paid by a primary teacher
- TeachHours
-
Primary teacher's hours of work per week:
Source
Union Bank of Switzerland report, Prices and Earnings Around the Globe (2003 version).
References
Weisberg, S. (2014). Applied Linear Regression, 4th edition. Hoboken NJ: Wiley.
Examples
head(BigMac2003)