---
title: Passengers and crew on the Titanic
description: The Board of Trade inquiry's counts, grouped by class, sex, age and survival.
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These are aggregate counts, not a record of individual routes. Follow each ribbon through class, sex and survival; inspect a ribbon to read its count.

```chart
type: alluvial
title: Survival differed across class and sex
data: { csv: data/titanic.csv }
encoding: { dimensions: [class, sex, survived], y: people }
axes:
  y: { label: People }
```

*Source: Titanic passenger and crew counts from the British Board of Trade inquiry, via Dawson (1995) and the [R datasets package](https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/datasets/html/Titanic.html). Age groups are summed in this view.*

## What an aggregate hides

Class includes the crew as well as the passenger classes. The source also separates adults and children; this view sums those groups. These ribbons are counts from a contingency table, not traced journeys of individuals. Use the CSV to inspect the age split before drawing conclusions about any subgroup.