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Keywords:
televisions, ISPs, population, area, railways, airports
Categories:
popular;
multivariate analysis
Description:
The data give many variables for many countries.

There are 12 variables (plus the country names) on 38 observations.

Variables:
Region The region of the country: one of Middle.East, Oceania, Asia, Africa, North.America, South.America, Europe
Area The are of the country in square kilometres
Irrigated The area of irrigated land (in square kilometres)
Population The population (in millions)
Under.14 The percentage of the population under 14
Life.expectancy The life expectancy at birth (in years)
Literacy.Rate The reported literacy rate (in percent)
Unemployment The unemployment rate (in percent)
ISPs/million The number of ISPs per miilion people
TVs/person The number of television sets per person
Railways The length of railways (in km)
Airports The number of airports
Data Quality:
There are no missing values.
Source:
http://www.worldfactsnow.com, accessed on 20 October 2003.
Notes:
Some countries were not included because the above website could not access the page on the day (eg New Zealand) for whatever reason, or there was data missing from the above categories (eg Solomon Islands).
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