BigMac2003


Prices in many world cities from a
2003 Union Bank of Switzerland report.

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This package is a companion to the textbook S. Weisberg (2005),
"Applied Linear Regression," 3rd edition, Wiley. It includes all the
data sets discussed in the book (except one), and a few functions that
are tailored to the methods discussed in the book.  As of version 2.0.0,
this package depends on the car package. Many functions formerly
in alr3 have been renamed and now reside in car.
Data files have beeen lightly modified to make some data columns row labels.

Sanford Weisberg

alr3

Data to accompany Applied Linear Regression 3rd edition

BigMac2003 function

This data frame uses the name of the city as row names, and
contains the following columns:
 <dl>
    <dt>BigMac</dt><dd>
 Minutes of labor to purchase a Big Mac 
    </dd> <dt>Bread</dt><dd>
 Minutes of labor to purchase 1 kg of bread
    </dd> <dt>Rice</dt><dd>
 Minutes of labor to purchase 1 kg of rice
    </dd> <dt>FoodIndex</dt><dd>
 Food price index (Zurich=100)
    </dd> <dt>Bus</dt><dd>
 Cost in US dollars for a one-way 10 km ticket
    </dd> <dt>Apt</dt><dd>
 Normal rent (US dollars) of a 3 room apartment
    </dd> <dt>TeachGI</dt><dd>
 Primary teacher's gross income, 1000s of US dollars
    </dd> <dt>TeachNI</dt><dd>
 Primary teacher's net income, 1000s of US dollars
    </dd> <dt>TaxRate</dt><dd>
 Tax rate paid by a primary teacher
    </dd> <dt>TeachHours</dt><dd>
 Primary teacher's hours of work per week:
    </dd> </dl> 

Format

Union Bank of Switzerland report, <em>Prices and Earnings Around
the Globe</em> (2003 version), from <a href="http://www.ubs.com/1/e/ubs_ch/wealth_mgmt_ch/research.html">http://www.ubs.com/1/e/ubs_ch/wealth_mgmt_ch/research.html</a>.

BigMac2003: World cities data

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