nzc {VGAM}R Documentation

Chinese Population in New Zealand 1867–2001

Description

The Chinese population in New Zealand from 1867 to 2001, along with the whole of the New Zealand population.

Usage

data(nzc)

Format

A data frame with 26 observations on the following 4 variables.

year
Year.
male
Number of Chinese males.
female
Number of Chinese females.
nz
Total number in the New Zealand population.

Details

The NZ total for the years 1867 and 1871 exclude the Maori population. The second value of 4583 looks erroneous, as seen by the plot below.

References

Page 6 of Aliens At My Table: Asians as New Zealanders see them by M. Ip and N. Murphy, (2005), Penguin.

Examples

## Not run: 
data(nzc)
attach(nzc)
plot(year, female/(male+female), type="b", ylab="Proportion",
     main="Proportion of Chinese that are female",
     col="blue", las=1)
abline(h=0.5, lty="dashed")

plot(year, 100*(male+female)/nz, type="b", ylab="Percent",
     ylim=c(0, max(100*(male+female)/nz)), col="blue",
     main="Percent of New Zealanders that are Chinese", las=1)
abline(h=0, lty="dashed")

detach(nzc)
## End(Not run)

[Package VGAM version 0.7-7 Index]