HouseholdExp          package:compositions          R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Household budget survey data on month expenditures of twenty men
     and twenty women for four commodity groups: housing, foodstuffs,
     other, and services. Amounts in HK$ are given. There are 40 cases
     and 5 variables for 4 commodity groups and sex.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(HouseholdExp)

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     In a sample survey of people living alone in a rented
     accommodation, twenty men and twenty women were randomly selected
     and asked to record over a period of one month their expenditures
     on the following four  mutually exclusive and exhaustive commodity
     groups: Housing, including fuel and lights, Foodstuffs, including
     alcohol and tobacco, Other goods, including clothing, footwear and
     durable goods, and Services, including transport and vehicles.
     Amounts in HK$ are given. There are 40 cases, 20 men and 20 women
     and 5 variables: 4 for commodity groups Housing, Food, Other,
     Services and the fifth sex, 1 for men, $-1$ for women. Note that
     the data has no sum constraint.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Aitchison: CODA microcomputer statistical package, 1986, the file
     name HEMF.DAT, here included under the GNU Public Library Licence
     Version 2 or newer.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Aitchison (1986): The Statistical Analysis of Compositional Data,
     (Data 08), pp13.

