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Data on 19th century English Poverty from Yule (1899)
Description
yule allows for a look at the correlation between poverty relief and poverty rates in England in the 19th century.
Usage
yule
Format
A data frame with 32 rows and 5 variables
- location
Location in England
- paup
Pauperism Growth
- outrelief
Poverty Relief Growth
- old
Annual growth in aged population
- pop
Annual growth in population
Details
This data is used in the Potential Outcomes Causal Model chapter of Causal Inference: The Mixtape by Cunningham.
Source
Yule, G. Udny. 1899. 'An Investigation into the Causes of Changes in Pauperism in England, Chiefly During the Last Two Interensal Decades.' Journal of Royal Statistical Society 62: 249–95.
References
Cunningham. 2021. Causal Inference: The Mixtape. Yale Press. https://mixtape.scunning.com/index.html.
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