Sample Data Sets

Business Data

The Business data set contains information about publicly held German, Japanese, and U.S. companies in the automotive, chemical, electronics, and oil refining industries in 1991. There is one observation for each company.

The following list describes each variable.

nation
nationality of the company

industry
principal business of the company

employs
number of employees

sales
sales for 1991, in millions of dollars

profits
profits for 1991, in millions of dollars

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