This data set comes from the Guardian's Data Blog and includes five financial demographic variables.
region - Region in the United Kingdom
debt - Average regional debt, not including mortgages, in pounds
unemployment - Percent unemployment
house - Average house price, in pounds
pay - Average hourly pay, in pounds
rpi - Retail price index, which is standardized to 100 for the entire UK, and lower index scores correspond to lower prices
Source
The data was described in the Guardian Data Blog: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/oct/27/debt-money-expert-facts Posted: Thursday, October 27, 2011 Retrieved: Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.