census1910 {ei}

Black Literacy in 1910

Description

A dataset of aggregate literacy rates (t) and fraction of the population that is black (x), from the 1910 US Census. Each observation represents one county.

Usage

census1910

Format

A data frame containing 1030 observations.

Source

Gary King, 1997, "Replication data for: A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem: Reconstructing Individual Behavior from Aggregate Data", http://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/LWMMKUTYXS UNF:3:DRWozWd89+vNLO7lY2AHbg== IQSS Dataverse Network [Distributor] V3 [Version]

References

Gary King. (1997). A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Section 13.2:241-5.

Robinson, William S. (1950). “Ecological Correlation and the Behavior of Individuals.” American Sociological Review 15:351-357.