marital.nz {VGAM} | R Documentation

## New Zealand Marital Data

### Description

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

### Usage

    data(marital.nz)

### 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.

### Source

Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

### References

See `bmi.nz` and `chest.nz`.

### Examples

    summary(marital.nz)

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