| TravelTime2011.1dec {RankingProject} | R Documentation |
Mean travel times to work, from 2011 ACS, rounded to 1 decimal place.
Description
A dataset containing the estimated mean travel time (in minutes) to work of workers 16 years and over who did not work at home (henceforth "mean travel time to work"), and its estimated Margin of Error at the 90% confidence level, for each of the 51 states (including Washington, D.C.), from the 2011 American Community Survey.
Usage
TravelTime2011.1dec
Format
A data frame with 51 rows and 7 variables:
- Rank
state rank, by estimated mean travel time, where 1 is lowest travel time and 51 is highest
- State
full name of the state
- Estimate.1dec
estimated mean travel time, in minutes
- MOE.1dec
estimated Margin of Error (at the 90% confidence level) of the estimated mean travel time, in minutes
- Abbreviation
postal abbreviation of the state
- Region
factor variable for geographic region of the state: Northeast, South, Midwest, West, Pacific
- FIPS
Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code of the state; may be useful for linking with other datasets
Details
Due to rounding, some ranks are tied in this version of the data. Also note that this dataset reports Margins of Error (MoEs) instead of standard errors.