Downloadable data sets in Excel format
The following data sets are used in the book. You can download the data in '.xls' format below:
- Data set 1: travels.xls (17 KB)
My travels in 2005 (chapter 1) - Data set 2: readers.xls (39 KB)
Readership and education groups (chapter 2) - Data set 3: health.xls (25 KB)
Spanish National Health Survey (chapter 6)
- Same data split by sex (chapter 16): health2.xls (14 KB) - Data set 4: smoke.xls (14 KB)
Smoking habits of staff groups (chapter 9) - Data set 5: funding.xls (74 KB)
Evaluation of scientific researchers (chapter 10) - Data set 6: benthos.xls (197 KB)
Abundances of marine species in sea-bed samples (chapter 10) - Data set 7: author.xls (24 KB)
Frequencies of letters in books by six authors (chapter 10) - Data set 8: stores.xls (234 KB)
Age distribution in food stores (chapter 15) - Data set 9: women.xls (14 KB)
Opinions about working women (chapter 16)
- Same data split by sex (chapter 16): women2.xls (16 KB)
- Raw data (N=33590) (chapters 17-19): womenraw.xls (2.8 MB)
(Notice missing data
=9 for gender and martial status,
=98,99 for education,
=0 for education, Spanish sample, not available)
- Five demographic variables by question 3 (chapter 17): women3.xls (16 KB)
- Five demographic variables by four questions (chapter 17): women4.xls (19 KB)
- Burt matrix for German samples (N=3418) (chapter 17): women5.xls (14 KB) - Data set 10: news.xls (35 KB)
News interest in Europe (chapter 19) - Data set 11: science.xls (352 KB)
Attitudes to science and environment, raw data (N=871) (chapter 20) - Data set 12: mobility.xls (25 KB)
Social mobility - occupations of fathers and sons (chapter 22) - Data set 13: EU.xls (22 KB)
European Union indicators (chapter 23)