Migration                package:car                R Documentation

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

     The `Migration' data frame has 90 rows and 8 columns.

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


     data(Migration)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     This data frame contains the following columns:

     _s_o_u_r_c_e Province of origin (source).
 A factor with levels:
          `ALTA', Alberta;
 `BC', British Columbia;
 `MAN', Manitoba;
          `NB', New Brunswick;
 `NFLD', New Foundland;
 `NS', Nova
          Scotia;
 `ONT', Ontario;
 `PEI', Prince Edward Island;
          `QUE', Quebec;
 `SASK', Saskatchewan.
 

     _d_e_s_t_i_n_a_t_i_o_n Province of destination (1971 residence).    
 A
          factor with levels:
 `ALTA', Alberta;
 `BC', British
          Columbia;
 `MAN', Manitoba;
 `NB', New Brunswick;
 `NFLD',
          New Foundland;
 `NS', Nova Scotia;
 `ONT', Ontario;
 `PEI',
          Prince Edward Island;
 `QUE', Quebec;
 `SASK', Saskatchewan.
 

     _m_i_g_r_a_n_t_s Number of migrants (from source to destination) in the
          period 1966-1971.
 

     _d_i_s_t_a_n_c_e Distance (between principal cities of provinces):
 NFLD,
          St. John;
 PEI, Charlottetown;
 NS, Halifax;
 NB, Fredricton;
           QUE, Montreal;
 ONT, Toronto;
 MAN, Winnipeg;
 ALTA,
          Edmonton;
 BC, Vancouver.
 

     _p_o_p_s_6_6 1966 population of source province.
 

     _p_o_p_s_7_1 1971 population of source province.
 

     _p_o_p_d_6_6 1966 population of destination province.
 

     _p_o_p_d_7_1 1971 population of destination province.
 

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

     There is one record in the data file for each migration stream.
     You can average the 1966 
 and 1971 population figures for each of
     the source and destination 
 provinces.

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

     Canada (1962)
 Map. Department of Mines and Technical Surveys.

     Canada (1971)
 Census of Canada.
 Statistics Canada,
 Vol. 1, Part
     2 [Table 32]. 

     Canada (1972)
 Canada Year Book. Statistics Canada [p. 1369].

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

     Fox, J. (1997)
 Applied Regression, Linear Models, and Related
     Methods. Sage.

