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Homicides & Socio-Economics (1960-90).
Description
Homicides and selected socio-economic characteristics for continental U.S. counties. Data for four decennial census years: 1960, 1970, 1980 and 1990.
Usage
ncovr
Format
An sf data frame with 3085 rows, 69 variables, and a geometry column:
- name
county name
- state_name
state name
- state_fips
state fips code (character)
- cnty_fips
county fips code (character)
- fips
combined state and county fips code (character)
- stfips
state fips code (numeric)
- cofips
county fips code (numeric)
- fipsno
fips code as numeric variable
- south
dummy variable for Southern counties (South = 1)
- hr
homicide rate per 100,000 (1960, 1970, 1980, 1990)
- hc
homicide count, three year average centered on 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990
- po
county population, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990
- rd
resource deprivation 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990 (principal component, see Codebook for details)
- ps
population structure 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990 (principal component, see Codebook for details)
- ue
unemployment rate 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990
- dv
divorce rate 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990 (percent males over 14 divorced)
- ma
median age 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990
- pol
log of population 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990
- dnl
log of population density 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990
- mfil
log of median family income 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990
- fp
percent families below poverty 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990 (see Codebook for details)
- blk
percent black 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990
- gi
Gini index of family income inequality 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990
- fh
percent female headed households 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990
- geometry
MULTIPOLYGON
Details
Sf object, unprojected. EPSG 4326: WGS84.
Source
S. Messner, L. Anselin, D. Hawkins, G. Deane, S. Tolnay, R. Baller (2000). An Atlas of the Spatial Patterning of County-Level Homicide, 1960-1990. Pittsburgh, PA, National Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR). https://geodacenter.github.io/data-and-lab/ncovr/
Examples
if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
library(sf)
data(ncovr)
plot(ncovr["NAME"])
}