EF3 {netseg}

Example data from Figure III of Echenique and Fryer (2006)

Description

Artificial example data from Echenique & Fryer (2006) Figure III representing a city with black and white neighbourhoods.

Usage

EF3

Format

Object of class "igraph". An undirected network with vertex attributes:

• name – vertex names of the form "A1" in which letter and number indicate the position in the lattice

• race – values 1 or 2 indicate the two groups

Details

This data is taken from Echenique & Fryer (2006, figure III). The data represent a fictional city composed of 30 neighborhoods that are either black or white.

Source

Echenique, Federico and Roland G. Fryer, Jr. (2006) "A Measure of Segregation Based On Social Interactions" Quarterly Journal of Economics CXXII(2):441-485

Examples

if(requireNamespace("igraph", quietly = TRUE)) {
  set.seed(1)
  plot(
    EF3,
    layout = igraph::layout.fruchterman.reingold,
    vertex.color = igraph::V(EF3)$type+1,
    vertex.label.family = "",
    sub = "Source: Echenique & Fryer (2006)",
    main = "Neighborhood racial segregation\n in a fictional city"
  )
}