MDarea.popA {PracTools}

Maryland area population

Description

An artificial population of census tracts, block groups, and persons

Usage

data(MDarea.popA)

Format

A data frame with 343,398 persons on the following variables:

PSU

A grouping of block groups (BLKGROUP) which has about 4290 persons

SSU

A grouping of block groups which has about 1010 persons

TRACT

A geographic area defined by the Census Bureau. Tracts generally have between 1,500 and 8,000 people but have a much wider range in Anne Arundel county.

BLKGROUP

Block group. A geographic area defined by the Census Bureau. Block groups generally have between 600 and 3,000 people.

Hispanic

Hispanic ethnicity (1=Hispanic; 2=Non-Hispanic)

Gender

Gender (1=Male; 2=Female)

Age

23 level age category (1 = Under 5 years; 2 = 5 to 9 years; 3 = 10 to 14 years; 4 = 15 to 17 years; 5 = 18 and 19 years; 6 = 20 years; 7 = 21 years; 8 = 22 to 24 years; 9 = 25 to 29 years; 10 = 30 to 34 years; 11 = 35 to 39 years; 12 = 40 to 44 years; 13 = 45 to 49 years; 14 = 50 to 54 years; 15 = 55 to 59 years; 16 = 60 and 61 years; 17 = 62 to 64 years; 18 = 65 and 66 years; 19 = 67 to 69 years; 20 = 70 to 74 years; 21 = 75 to 79 years; 22 = 80 to 84 years; 23 = 85 years and over)

person

Counter for person within tract/block group/Hispanic/Gender/Age combination

y1

Artificial continuous variable

y2

Artificial continuous variable

y3

Artificial continuous variable

ins.cov

Medical coverage (0 = person does not have medical insurance coverage; 1 = person has medical insurance coverage)

hosp.stay

Overnight hospital stay (0 = person did not have an overnight hospital stay in last 12 months; 1 = person did have an overnight hospital stay in last 12 months)

Details

A dataset of 343,398 persons based on the 2000 decennial U.S. Census for Anne Arundel County in the US state of Maryland. Person records were generated based on counts from the 2000 census. Individual values for each person were generated using models. Groupings to form the variables PSU and SSU were done after sorting the census file by tract and block group within tract.

Note that MDarea.popA is different from the dataset, MDarea.pop, that is used in the book by Valliant, Dever, and Kreuter (2018). MDarea.pop is larger with 403,997 persons. MDarea.popA was created by taking an equal probability, systematic subsample from MDarea.pop. MDarea.popA does have the same numbers of TRACTs, PSUs, and SSUs as MDarea.pop. The smaller data set was created to meet the CRAN size limit on installed packages. The full population, MDarea.pop, can be downloaded from https://umd.app.box.com/v/PracTools2ndEdition.

Source

2000 U.S. decennial census, http://www.census.gov/main/www/cen2000.html

References

Valliant, R., Dever, J., Kreuter, F. (2018). Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples, 2nd edition. New York: Springer.

Examples

data(MDarea.popA)
str(MDarea.popA)
table(MDarea.popA$TRACT)
table(MDarea.popA$TRACT, MDarea.popA$Hispanic)