propensity: Distribution of crimes against persons at different ages
Description
This dataset comes from Plate IV, "Influence de l'age" of Guerry(1833), transcribed in Whitt & Reinking's (2002) translation as Table 9A, pp. 38-43.
It gives the rank ordering of crimes against persons in seven age groups, in long form.
Usage
data("propensity")
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 124 observations on the following 4 variables.
age
a character vector, with 7 age groups, <21, 21-30, 30-40 ... 60-70, 70-
rank
a numeric vector, rank of the crime within each age group
crime
a character vector, label of the crime
share
a numeric vector, share (frequency) of the crime in a population of 1000
Details
For each age group (both males and females), the 17 most frequent crimes are listed in rank order, followed by an 'Other crime'
category.
References
Guerry, A.-M. (1833). Essai sur la statistique morale de la France Paris: Crochard.