Demographic Data
Source: Gunst, R. F., and Mason, R. L. (1980), Regression Analysis and
Its Application: A Data-Oriented Approach, New York: Marcel
Dekker, p. 358.
Taken From: Source
Dimension: 49 observations on 7 variables
Description: As described in Gunst and Mason, the data set is a subset of
larger data set. The variables are demographic characteristics
of the following 49 countries:
1 Australia 2 Austria 3 Barbados
4 Belgium 5 British Guiana 6 Bulgaria
7 Canada 8 Chile 9 Costa Rica
10 Cyprus 11 Czechoslovakia 12 Denmark
13 El Salvador 14 Finland 15 France
16 Guatemala 17 Hong Kong 18 Hungary
19 Iceland 20 India 21 Ireland
22 Italy 23 Jamaica 24 Japan
25 Luxembourg 26 Malaya 27 Malta
28 Mauritius 29 Mexico 30 Netherlands
31 New Zealand 32 Nicaragua 33 Norway
34 Panama 35 Poland 36 Portugal
37 Puerto Rico 38 Romania 39 Singapore
40 Spain 41 Sweden 42 Switzerland
43 Taiwan 44 Trinidad 45 United Kingdom
46 United States 47 USSR 48 West Germany
49 Yugoslavia
Column Description
1 infant death per 1,000 live births
2 # of inhabitants per physician
3 population per square kilometer
4 population per 1,000 hectars of agricultural land
5 percentage literate of population aged 15 years and over
6 # of students enrolled in higher education per 100,000 population
7 gross national product per capita (1957 U.S. dollars)