BMI {wec} | R Documentation |
Data on BMI of Dutch citizens
Description
The BMI
data contains information on Dutch individuals' BMI, in addition to select socio-demographic variables.
Format
A data frame with 3323 observations on the following 6 variables.
sex
a factor with levels
male
andfemale
education
a factor with levels
lowest
,middle
, andhighest
year
a factor with levels
2000
,2005
, and2011
BMI
interval variable representing respondents' Body Mass Index (BMI)
childless
a factor with levels
no
andyes
log_age
interval variable representing the natural log of respondents' age
age_categorical
a factor with levels
Young (18-30)
,Middle (31-59)
andOlder (60-70)
Source
These data are a subset from three waves of the ‘Socio-Cultural Developments in the Netherlands’ (SOCON) datasets, collected at the Radboud University in the Netherlands (see references for original codebooks).
References
Eisinga, R., G., Kraaykamp, P. Scheepers, P. Thijs (2012). Religion in Dutch society 2011-2012. Documentation of a national survey on religious and secular attitudes and behaviour in 2011-2012, DANS Data Guide 11, The Hague: DANS/Pallas Publications Amsterdam University Press, 184p.
Eisinga, R., A. Need, M. Coenders, N.D. de Graaf, M. Lubbers, P. Scheepers, M. Levels, P. Thijs (2012). Religion in Dutch society 2005. Documentation of a national survey on religious and secular attitudes and behaviour in 2005, DANS Data Guide 10, The Hague: DANS/Pallas Publications Amsterdam University Press, 246p.
Eisinga, R., M. Coenders, A. Felling, M. te Grotenhuis, S. Oomens, P. Scheepers (2002). Religion in Dutch society 2000. Documentation of a national survey on religious and secular attitudes in 2000, Amsterdam: NIWI-Steinmetz Archive, 374p.
Examples
data(BMI)
# Without Controls
model.dummy <- lm(BMI ~ education, data=BMI)
summary(model.dummy)
# With Controls
model.dummy.controls <- lm(BMI ~ education + sex + log_age + childless + year, data=BMI)
summary(model.dummy.controls)