The data originated from the Demographic and Health Survey program. An SPSS file containing data for 1000 mothers was provided by Deepankar Basu. The data set described herein is provided in a space-delimited ASCII text file format. This data set contains demographic information for 1000 Indian mothers, including age, years of education, social status, and whether the mother has employment outside the home. There is also information about the gender of any children that the mother has and a count of how many of the children are currently alive.
The data set contains the following variables:
| age - The mother's age. |
| edu - The number of years of formal schooling that the mother has received. |
| alive - How many of the mother's children are still alive. |
| middle - Whether the mother is middle-class |
| poor - Whether the mother is poor |
| work - Whether the mother works for pay outside the home |
| cord1 to cord14 - The gender of the mother's first child, second child, etc up to fourteenth child. |
The data set is provided as a space-delimited ASCII text file called india.txt.
The file indianMothersMeta.xml provides a StatDataML description of the data set.