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marital.nz: New Zealand Marital Data

Description

Some marital data mainly from a large NZ company collected in the early 1990s.

Usage

data(marital.nz)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 6053 observations on the following 3 variables.

age

a numeric vector, age in years

ethnicity

a factor with levels European Maori Other Polynesian. Only Europeans are included in the data set.

mstatus

a factor with levels Divorced/Separated, Married/Partnered, Single, Widowed.

Details

This is a subset of a data set collected from a self-administered questionnaire administered in a large New Zealand workforce observational study conducted during 1992--3. The data were augmented by a second study consisting of retirees. The data can be considered a reasonable representation of the white male New Zealand population in the early 1990s.

References

See bmi.nz and chest.nz.

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
summary(marital.nz)
# }

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