The `waste` data set studies the relationship between waste composition and floating population in Catalonia. The actual population of a municipality combines census population and floating population (tourists, seasonal visitors, temporary workers, and similar short-term residents), expressed as equivalent full-time residents.
The composition of urban solid waste is classified into five parts:
`x1`: non-recyclable waste,
`x2`: glass,
`x3`: light containers,
`x4`: paper and cardboard,
`x5`: biodegradable waste.
Waste generation and composition are influenced by floating population, which makes waste composition a useful predictor of this difficult-to-measure demographic quantity.
wasteAn object of class data.frame with 215 rows and 10 columns.
Coenders, G., Martín-Fernández, J. A., & Ferrer-Rosell, B. (2017). When relative and absolute information matter: compositional predictor with a total in generalized linear models. Statistical Modelling, 17(6), 494–512.