Rochdale {vcd} | R Documentation

## Rochdale Data

### Description

Information on 665 households of Rochdale, Lancashire, UK. The study was conducted to identify influence factors on economical activity of wives.

### Usage

    data(Rochdale)

### Format

A 8-dimensional array resulting from cross-tabulating 665 observations on 8 variables. The variables and their levels are as follows:

No | Name | Levels
1 | EconActive | yes, no
2 | Age | <38, >38
3 | HusbandEmployed | yes, no
4 | Child | yes, no
5 | Education | yes, no
6 | HusbandEducation | yes, no
7 | Asian | yes, no
8 | HouseholdWorking | yes, no

### Note

Many observations are missing: only 91 out of all 256 combinations contain information.

### Source

Whittaker (1990).

### References

H. Hofmann (2003). Constructing and reading mosaicplots. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, bold(43), 4, 565–580.

J. Whittaker (1990), Graphical Models on Applied Multivariate Statistics, Wiley, New York.

### Examples

    data(Rochdale)
    mosaic(Rochdale)

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