In this course, appart from simulating own data for some examples, we employ several datasets.
Data on European countries, primarily from Eurostat. It can be downloaded in several formats
Comma separated values format is available here (right click and choose Save link as…).
RDS format here.
The data contains the following variables:
| Jméno proměnné | Popis | Zdroj |
|---|---|---|
| country | Country name | |
| code | Two digit coutry code | |
| gdp | GDP in the milions of EUR (2018) | Eurostat |
| population | Country population on the 1.1.2018 | Eurostat |
| area | Area of the country | CIA factbook |
| eu_member | Is the country a EU member? (2019) | European Union |
| postsoviet | Was the country a member of the Eastern block | Wikipedia |
| life_exp | Life expectancy at birth (2017) | UN |
| uni_prc | % of people with university education between 15-64 years (2018) | Eurostat |
| poverty_risk | % of people in risk of poverty (2017) | Eurostat |
| material_dep | % of people in material deprivation, 3 or less items (2017) | Eurostat |
| hdi | Human development index (2018) | UN |
| foundation_date | Date of founding | Wikipedia |
| maj_belief | Biggest religious group (2018) | Pew Researcher Center |
Data on the voter turnout in the Czech 2017 parliamentary elections from the 8th round of the European Social Survey.
Comma seperated values format is available here (right click and choose Save link as…).
We recommend to download the data and save them ina folder called
data together with other materials for the course.
This is United Nations country level data from 1998, originally used by John Fox in his book Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models
The data can be downloaded in .txt format here (right click and choose Save link as…). The description of the data here.