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Prices in many world cities from a 2003 Union Bank of Switzerland report.
This data frame uses the name of the city as row names, and contains the following columns:
Minutes of labor to purchase a Big Mac
Minutes of labor to purchase 1 kg of bread
Minutes of labor to purchase 1 kg of rice
Food price index (Zurich=100)
Cost in US dollars for a one-way 10 km ticket
Normal rent (US dollars) of a 3 room apartment
Primary teacher's gross income, 1000s of US dollars
Primary teacher's net income, 1000s of US dollars
Tax rate paid by a primary teacher
Primary teacher's hours of work per week:
Union Bank of Switzerland report, Prices and Earnings Around the Globe (2003 version), from http://www.ubs.com/1/e/ubs_ch/wealth_mgmt_ch/research.html.
Weisberg, S. (2005). Applied Linear Regression, 3rd edition. New York: Wiley, Problem 7.5.
head(BigMac2003)