crime2009 {api2lm}

2009 Crime Data

Description

Data related to crime for the 50 U.S. states plus the District of Columbia. The data are taken from the crime_data data set available in the statsmodels package in Python. As stated in its documentation, "All data is for 2009 and was obtained from the American Statistical Abstracts except as indicated ...." The original documentation is available at https://www.statsmodels.org/dev/datasets/generated/statecrime.html.

The violent variable includes murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Numbers for Illinois and Minnesota do not include forcible rapes. Footnote included with the American Statistical Abstract table reads: "The data collection methodology for the offense of forcible rape used by the Illinois and the Minnesota state Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Programs (with the exception of Rockford, Illinois, and Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota) does not comply with national UCR guidelines. Consequently, their state figures for forcible rape and violent crime (of which forcible rape is a part) are not published in this table."

The single variable is calculated from 2009 1-year American Community Survey obtained obtained from Census. Variable is Male householder, no wife present, family household combined with Female householder, no husband present, family household, divided by the total number of Family households.

Usage

data(crime2009)

Format

A data frame with 51 observations and 7 variables:

violent

Rate of violent crimes per 100,000 persons in the population.

murder

Rate of murders per 100,000 persons in the population.

hs_grad

Percentage of the population having graduated from high school or higher.

poverty

Percentage of individuals with income below the poverty line.

white

Percentage of the population that is only considered "white" for race based on the 2009 American Community Survey.

single

Percentage of families made up of single individuals.

urban

Percentage of the population living in Urbanized Areas as of 2010 Census, where Urbanized Areas are areas of 50,000 or more people.

Source

A public domain data set available in the statsmodels python package. All data is for 2009 and was obtained from the American Statistical Abstracts except as indicated. https://www.statsmodels.org/dev/datasets/generated/statecrime.html.