us_state_populations {historydata}

Populations of US states and territories, 1790-2010

Description

Population figures for US states and territories from the decennial census.

Usage

us_state_populations

Format

A data frame with 983 observations of 4 variables.

Variables

• year: date of the census.

• state: name of the state or territory.

• population: population of the state or territory.

• GISJOIN: a unique identifier for joining NHGIS data to spatial data.

References

This dataset has been gathered by the NHGIS. Minnesota Population Center, National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 2.0 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2011).

Examples

head(us_state_populations)