Angeville {Guerry} | R Documentation |
Adolph d'Angeville (1836) presented a comprehensive statistical summary of nearly every known measurable characteristic of the French population (by department) in his Essai sur la Statistique de la Population francaise. Using the graphic method of shaded (choropleth) maps invented by Baron Charles Dupin and applied to significant social questions by Guerry, Angeville's Essai became the first broad and general application of principles of graphic representation to national industrial and population data.
The collection of variables in the data frame Angeville
is a small subset of over 120 columns presented in 8 tables and many
graphic maps.
data(Angeville)
A data frame with 86 observations on the following 16 variables.
dept
Department
Ain
Aisne
... Vosges
Yonne
Mortality
Marriages
Legit_births
Illeg_births
Recruits
Conscripts
Exemptions
Farmers
Recruits_ignorant
Schoolchildren
Windows_doors
Primary_schools
Life_exp
Pop1831
ID codes for dept
were modified from those in Angeville's tables
to match those used in Guerry
.
Angeville's variables are recorded in a variety of different ways and some of these were calculated from other columns in his tables not included here. As well, the variable names and labels used here were often shortened from the more complete descriptions given by d'Angeville. The notation "(Tn:k)" indicates that the variable used here came from Table n, Column k.
Angeville, A. d' (1836). Essai sur la Statistique de la Population francaise, Paris: F. Darfour.
The data was digitally scanned from Angeville's tables using OCR software, then extensively edited to correct obvious errors and finally subjected to some consistency checks using the column totals and ranked values he provided.
Whitt, H. P. (2007). Modernism, internal colonialism, and the direction of violence: suicide and crimes against persons in France, 1825-1830. Unpublished ms.
data(Angeville) ## maybe str(Angeville) ; plot(Angeville) ...