B.6 French Food Data

The data set consists of the average expenditures on food for several different types of families in France (manual workers = MA, employees = EM, managers = CA) with different numbers of children (2,3,4 or 5 children). The data is taken from Lebart, Morineau and Fénelon (1982).

bread vegetables fruits meat poultry milk wine
1 MA2 332 428 354 1437 526 247 427
2 EM2 293 559 388 1527 567 239 258
3 CA2 372 767 562 1948 927 235 433
4 MA3 406 563 341 1507 544 324 407
5 EM3 386 608 396 1501 558 319 363
6 CA3 438 843 689 2345 1148 243 341
7 MA4 534 660 367 1620 638 414 407
8 EM4 460 699 484 1856 762 400 416
9 CA4 385 789 621 2366 1149 304 282
10 MA5 655 776 423 1848 759 495 486
11 EM5 584 995 548 2056 893 518 319
12 CA5 515 1097 887 2630 1167 561 284
$\overline{x}$ 446,7 737,8 505,0 1886,7 803,2 358,2 368,6
$s_{X_{i}X_{i}}$ 102,6 172,2 158,1 378,9 238,9 112,1 68,7