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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 contains the following columns:
- City
- Name of City
- 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), from http://www.ubs.com/1/e/ubs_ch/wealth_mgmt_ch/research.html.
References
Weisberg, S. (2005). Applied Linear Regression, 3rd edition. New York: Wiley, Problem 7.5.
Examples
data(BigMac2003)
[Package
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