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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.
Name: age
Type: integer (min: 0)
Description: The mother's age.
Name: edu
Type: integer (min: 0)
Description: The number of years of formal schooling that the mother has received.
Name: alive
Type: integer (min: 0)
Description: How many of the mother's children are still alive.
Name: middle
Type: categorical ( 0 means no, 1 means yes )
Description: Whether the mother is middle-class
Name: poor
Type: categorical ( 0 means no, 1 means yes )
Description: Whether the mother is poor
Name: work
Type: categorical ( 0 means no, 1 means yes )
Description: Whether the mother works for pay outside the home
Name: cord1 to cord14
Type: categorical ( 1 means boy, 2 means girl )
Description: The gender of the mother's first child, second child, etc up to fourteenth child.
The variables middle and poor are not mutually exclusive. It is possible for a mother to be neither middle-class nor poor (i.e., there are upper-class or rich mothers in the data set).
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.