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...of districts as well. There remains a minuscule discrepancy between the Mosteller and Tukey description and the Princeton one, in that M&T say that the 4th variable is the % of the population with education beyond primary school, whereas the Princeton source says it's the percentage of 'draftees' with this level of education; given the date, the differences between male and female education levels at the time, and the (presumed) fact that the 'draftees' are all male, this might make a difference to interpretation, I suppose. It did occur to me to wonder why Mosteller and Tukey...

...description accurately matches what is said in the Mosteller and Tukey source quoted, but according to the data archived at Princeton (links from http://opr.princeton.edu/archive/eufert/switz.html), the variable that Mosteller and Tukey report as infant mortality is actually the proportion of 'draftees' with education beyond primary school. Infant mortality is on the archived file, but the values are quite a lot different. Of course, it's possible that Mosteller and Tukey were right and the people who did the archiving at Princenton, later, got it wrong. It seems it is you that got it wr...

...description accurately matches what is said in the Mosteller and Tukey source quoted, but according to the data archived at Princeton (links from http://opr.princeton.edu/archive/eufert/switz.html), the variable that Mosteller and Tukey report as infant mortality is actually the proportion of 'draftees' with education beyond primary school. Infant mortality is on the archived file, but the values are quite a lot different. Of course, it's possible that Mosteller and Tukey were right and the people who did the archiving at Princenton, later, got it wrong. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-...