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States dataset for R Companion to Political Analysis, Third Edition
Description
A dataset with variables about the 50 states. This dataset is used to demonstrate application of R to political analysis. See book Appendix for variable names and descriptions.
Usage
states
Format
A data frame with 50 rows and 149 variables.
- abortion.rate
Number of abortions per 1000 women 15-44, 2008
- abortlaws
Number of restrictions on abortion
- abortlaws.3cat
Restrictiveness of state abortion laws, 3 ordinal categories
- adv.or.more
Percentage of 25+ population with graduate or professional degree
- alcohol
Alcohol consumption (gal/capita) 2007
- attend.pct
Percentage freq attend relig serv (Pew)
- ba.or.more
Percentage of 25+ population with bachelor's degree or more
- battleground2020
Battleground in 2020 election?
- biden2020
Two-party vote share for Biden in 2020 election
- biden2020.ev
Electoral College votes for Biden in 2020 election
- biz.tax.rank
State business tax climate ranking
- biz.tax.score
State business tax climate rating
- black.percent
Percentage of population black or African American
- black.stateleg
Percent of state legislators who are African American
- brady.rank
Brady Campaign ranking
- brady.score
Brady Campaign score
- broadband
Percentage of households with broadband Internet subscription
- carfatal
Motor vehicle fatalities (per 100,000 pop)
- carfatal07
Motor vehicle fatalities per 100,000 pop (2007)
- cig.tax
Cigarette tax per pack
- cig.tax.3cat
Cigarette tax per pack, 3 ordinal categories
- cigarettes
Packs bimonthly per adult pop
- citizen.ideology
Citizen ideology index
- clinton2016
Vote share for Clinton in 2016 election
- cong.dem
Percentage of state's 2020 congressional delegation that is Democratic
- cook.index
Higher scores more Dem
- cook.index3
3 quantiles of cook_index
- corrections.incarc.rate
Population incarcerated per 100,000 state residents
- corrections.total.rate
Population under correctional supervision per 100,000 state residents
- covid.cases
COVID cases (as of June 2021)
- covid.cases.per1000
COVID cases per 1,000 persons (as of June 2021)
- covid.deaths
COVID deaths (as of June 2021)
- covid.deaths.per1000
COVID deaths per 1,000 persons (as of June 2021)
- covid.response.max
Maximum of COVID response stringency index
- covid.response.mean
Mean of COVID response stringency index
- covid.vaccinated
Percentage of population fully vaccinated against COVID (as of June 2021)
- crime.rate.burglary
Burglary rate, per 100,000 population
- crime.rate.murder
Murder and non-negligent manslaughter rate, per 100,000 population
- crime.rate.property
Property crime rates, per 100,000 population
- crime.rate.violent
Violent crime rate, per 100,000 population
- deathpen.executions
Executions since 1976
- deathpen.exonerations
Death penalty exonerations since 1973
- deathpen.status
Does state retain death penalty?
- defexpen
Federal defense expenditures per capita
- dem.stateleg
Percent of state legislators who are Democrats
- density
Population per square mile
- division
Census division
- drug.death.rate
Drug overdose death rate per 100,000 adults
- earmarks.pcap
Earmarks per capita (in dollars)
- foreign.born
Percentage of population born outside the United States
- gay.policy
Billman's policy scale
- gay.policy2
RECODE of gay_policy (Billman's policy scale)
- gay.policy.con
Does state have 'most conservative' gay policies?
- gay.support
Lax-Phillips opinion index
- gay.support3
Gay rights: public support
- giffords.grade
Letter grade of state's gun control laws, from Giffords Law Center
- giffords.rank
Ranking of state's gun control laws, from Giffords Law Center
- gini.2016
GINI index score
- gini.rank.2016
Income equality ranking
- govt.worker
Precentage workforce government workers (2012)
- gun.bgchecks
Background checks per 100,000 pop (2012)
- gun.dealers
Gun dealers per 100,000 pop
- gun.deaths.100k
Gun deaths per 100k
- gun.murders
Gun murder rate (2010)
- gunlaws
Number of state gun control laws
- gunlaws.3cat
Number of state gun control laws, 3 ordinal categories
- gunsammo.rank
Ranking of best states for gun owners
- hh.income
Median household income (dollars)
- hispanic.percent
Percentage of poulation Hispanic or Latino (of any race)
- hispanic.stateleg
Percent of state legislators who are Hispanic/Latino
- hr.nominate.mean
Mean NOMINATE score of state's House delegation
- hs.or.more
Percentage of 25+ population attained at least high school diploma or equivalent
- hs.yrs.ss
Years of social studies required to graduate high school
- infant.mortality
Number of infant deaths per 1,000 live births
- judge.selection
Method used to select appellate court judges
- judges.elected
Does state elect appellate court judges?
- land.area
Size of state in square miles
- legalclimate
State legal climate rating 2015
- legalclimate.rank
State legal climate ranking 2015
- legis.conservatism
Rating of conservatism of state legislature
- legis.prof.rank
State legislative professionalism rank for 2015
- legis.prof.score
State legislative professionalism score for 2015
- lgbtq.equality.3cat
Ordinal ranking of state policies for LQBTQ equality
- lgbtq.equality.laws
Number of laws passed that advance LQBTQ equality
- median.age
Median age (years)
- medicaid.expansion
State action on Medicaid expansion pursuant to ACA
- min.wage
State minimum wage
- obesity.percent
Percentage of adults with a body mass index of 30.0 or higher
- opioid.rx.rate
Retail opioid prescriptions dispensed per 100 persons
- over64
Percentage of population 65 years and over
- polarization.house
Polarization in State Legislatures, Lower chambers
- polarization.senate
Polarization in State Legislatures, Upper chambers
- policy.innovation.rate
Policy adoption rate score
- pop2016
State population, 2016 (in 100k)
- pop.18.24
Percentage of population 18 to 24 years old
- population
State population in 2020
- population.change
Percentage increase/decrease in population from 2010 to 2020
- pot.policy
State marijuana laws in 2017
- poverty.rate
Percentage of people in poverty
- prcapinc
Per capita income
- preg.teen.rate
Number of pregnancies per 1,000 women aged 15-19
- preg.uninten.rate
Unintended pregnancy rate per 1,000 women 15-44
- prochoice.percent
Percentage of adults who say abortion should be legal in all/most cases
- public.conservative
Percentage adults self-identifying as conservative
- public.liberal
Percentage adults self-identifying as liberal
- public.moderate
Percentage adults self-identifying as moderate
- region
Census region
- relig.Cath
Percentage Catholic (2012)
- relig.Prot
Percentage Protestant (2012)
- relig.high
Percentage high religiosity (2012)
- relig.import
Percent religion "A great deal of guidance"
- relig.import.2016
Overall index of religiosity
- relig.low
Percentage low religiosity (2012)
- religiosity
Relig observance-belief scale (Pew)
- religiosity3
Religiosity
- rtw
Right to work state?
- schools.avg.salary
Average salary of public school teachers
- schools.spend
Expenditure per student in average daily attendance
- schools.st.ratio
Students enrolled per teacher
- secularism
Secularism scale (Pew)
- secularism3
3 quantiles of secularism
- smokers
Data_Value
- south
Southern state?
- speak.english.only
Percentage of population that only speaks English
- state
State Name
- state.govt.rank
Overall quality of state government administrative functions
- stateid
Two-letter abbreviation of state name
- suicide.rate
Number of deaths due to intentional self-harm per 100,000 population
- tax.source
State's primary revenue source
- term.limits
Does state have term limits for legislators?
- trump2016
Vote share for Trump in 2016 election
- trump2016.ev
Electoral College votes for Trump in 2016 election
- trump2020
Two-party vote share for Trump in 2020 election
- trump2020.ev
Electoral college votes for Trump in 2020 election
- turnout.20vs16
Difference in voter turnout in 2020 compared to 2016
- under18
Percentage of population under age 18
- unemployment
State unemployment rate
- uninsured
No health insurance coverage
- unionized
Percent of workers who are union members
- unionized.4cat
Ordinal-level measurement of state's percentage union membership
- urban
Percent urban population
- vep16.turnout
Percent turnout of voting eligible population in 2016
- vep18.turnout
Percent turnout of voting eligible population in 2018
- vep20.turnout
Percent turnout of voting eligible population in 2020
- volunteer.hrs.pc
Volunteer hours per resident
- volunteer.rate
Volunteer rate
- voter.id.law
Voter identification law in effect in 2017
- white.percent
Percentage of population white
- women.stateleg
Percent of state legislators who are women
Source
Data sources vary. See Appendix of printed textbook for further information.
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States dataset for R Companion to Political Analysis, Third Edition
Description
A dataset with variables about the 50 states. This dataset is used to demonstrate application of R to political analysis. See book Appendix for variable names and descriptions.
Usage
states
Format
A data frame with 50 rows and 149 variables.
- abortion.rate
Number of abortions per 1000 women 15-44, 2008
- abortlaws
Number of restrictions on abortion
- abortlaws.3cat
Restrictiveness of state abortion laws, 3 ordinal categories
- adv.or.more
Percentage of 25+ population with graduate or professional degree
- alcohol
Alcohol consumption (gal/capita) 2007
- attend.pct
Percentage freq attend relig serv (Pew)
- ba.or.more
Percentage of 25+ population with bachelor's degree or more
- battleground2020
Battleground in 2020 election?
- biden2020
Two-party vote share for Biden in 2020 election
- biden2020.ev
Electoral College votes for Biden in 2020 election
- biz.tax.rank
State business tax climate ranking
- biz.tax.score
State business tax climate rating
- black.percent
Percentage of population black or African American
- black.stateleg
Percent of state legislators who are African American
- brady.rank
Brady Campaign ranking
- brady.score
Brady Campaign score
- broadband
Percentage of households with broadband Internet subscription
- carfatal
Motor vehicle fatalities (per 100,000 pop)
- carfatal07
Motor vehicle fatalities per 100,000 pop (2007)
- cig.tax
Cigarette tax per pack
- cig.tax.3cat
Cigarette tax per pack, 3 ordinal categories
- cigarettes
Packs bimonthly per adult pop
- citizen.ideology
Citizen ideology index
- clinton2016
Vote share for Clinton in 2016 election
- cong.dem
Percentage of state's 2020 congressional delegation that is Democratic
- cook.index
Higher scores more Dem
- cook.index3
3 quantiles of cook_index
- corrections.incarc.rate
Population incarcerated per 100,000 state residents
- corrections.total.rate
Population under correctional supervision per 100,000 state residents
- covid.cases
COVID cases (as of June 2021)
- covid.cases.per1000
COVID cases per 1,000 persons (as of June 2021)
- covid.deaths
COVID deaths (as of June 2021)
- covid.deaths.per1000
COVID deaths per 1,000 persons (as of June 2021)
- covid.response.max
Maximum of COVID response stringency index
- covid.response.mean
Mean of COVID response stringency index
- covid.vaccinated
Percentage of population fully vaccinated against COVID (as of June 2021)
- crime.rate.burglary
Burglary rate, per 100,000 population
- crime.rate.murder
Murder and non-negligent manslaughter rate, per 100,000 population
- crime.rate.property
Property crime rates, per 100,000 population
- crime.rate.violent
Violent crime rate, per 100,000 population
- deathpen.executions
Executions since 1976
- deathpen.exonerations
Death penalty exonerations since 1973
- deathpen.status
Does state retain death penalty?
- defexpen
Federal defense expenditures per capita
- dem.stateleg
Percent of state legislators who are Democrats
- density
Population per square mile
- division
Census division
- drug.death.rate
Drug overdose death rate per 100,000 adults
- earmarks.pcap
Earmarks per capita (in dollars)
- foreign.born
Percentage of population born outside the United States
- gay.policy
Billman's policy scale
- gay.policy2
RECODE of gay_policy (Billman's policy scale)
- gay.policy.con
Does state have 'most conservative' gay policies?
- gay.support
Lax-Phillips opinion index
- gay.support3
Gay rights: public support
- giffords.grade
Letter grade of state's gun control laws, from Giffords Law Center
- giffords.rank
Ranking of state's gun control laws, from Giffords Law Center
- gini.2016
GINI index score
- gini.rank.2016
Income equality ranking
- govt.worker
Precentage workforce government workers (2012)
- gun.bgchecks
Background checks per 100,000 pop (2012)
- gun.dealers
Gun dealers per 100,000 pop
- gun.deaths.100k
Gun deaths per 100k
- gun.murders
Gun murder rate (2010)
- gunlaws
Number of state gun control laws
- gunlaws.3cat
Number of state gun control laws, 3 ordinal categories
- gunsammo.rank
Ranking of best states for gun owners
- hh.income
Median household income (dollars)
- hispanic.percent
Percentage of poulation Hispanic or Latino (of any race)
- hispanic.stateleg
Percent of state legislators who are Hispanic/Latino
- hr.nominate.mean
Mean NOMINATE score of state's House delegation
- hs.or.more
Percentage of 25+ population attained at least high school diploma or equivalent
- hs.yrs.ss
Years of social studies required to graduate high school
- infant.mortality
Number of infant deaths per 1,000 live births
- judge.selection
Method used to select appellate court judges
- judges.elected
Does state elect appellate court judges?
- land.area
Size of state in square miles
- legalclimate
State legal climate rating 2015
- legalclimate.rank
State legal climate ranking 2015
- legis.conservatism
Rating of conservatism of state legislature
- legis.prof.rank
State legislative professionalism rank for 2015
- legis.prof.score
State legislative professionalism score for 2015
- lgbtq.equality.3cat
Ordinal ranking of state policies for LQBTQ equality
- lgbtq.equality.laws
Number of laws passed that advance LQBTQ equality
- median.age
Median age (years)
- medicaid.expansion
State action on Medicaid expansion pursuant to ACA
- min.wage
State minimum wage
- obesity.percent
Percentage of adults with a body mass index of 30.0 or higher
- opioid.rx.rate
Retail opioid prescriptions dispensed per 100 persons
- over64
Percentage of population 65 years and over
- polarization.house
Polarization in State Legislatures, Lower chambers
- polarization.senate
Polarization in State Legislatures, Upper chambers
- policy.innovation.rate
Policy adoption rate score
- pop2016
State population, 2016 (in 100k)
- pop.18.24
Percentage of population 18 to 24 years old
- population
State population in 2020
- population.change
Percentage increase/decrease in population from 2010 to 2020
- pot.policy
State marijuana laws in 2017
- poverty.rate
Percentage of people in poverty
- prcapinc
Per capita income
- preg.teen.rate
Number of pregnancies per 1,000 women aged 15-19
- preg.uninten.rate
Unintended pregnancy rate per 1,000 women 15-44
- prochoice.percent
Percentage of adults who say abortion should be legal in all/most cases
- public.conservative
Percentage adults self-identifying as conservative
- public.liberal
Percentage adults self-identifying as liberal
- public.moderate
Percentage adults self-identifying as moderate
- region
Census region
- relig.Cath
Percentage Catholic (2012)
- relig.Prot
Percentage Protestant (2012)
- relig.high
Percentage high religiosity (2012)
- relig.import
Percent religion "A great deal of guidance"
- relig.import.2016
Overall index of religiosity
- relig.low
Percentage low religiosity (2012)
- religiosity
Relig observance-belief scale (Pew)
- religiosity3
Religiosity
- rtw
Right to work state?
- schools.avg.salary
Average salary of public school teachers
- schools.spend
Expenditure per student in average daily attendance
- schools.st.ratio
Students enrolled per teacher
- secularism
Secularism scale (Pew)
- secularism3
3 quantiles of secularism
- smokers
Data_Value
- south
Southern state?
- speak.english.only
Percentage of population that only speaks English
- state
State Name
- state.govt.rank
Overall quality of state government administrative functions
- stateid
Two-letter abbreviation of state name
- suicide.rate
Number of deaths due to intentional self-harm per 100,000 population
- tax.source
State's primary revenue source
- term.limits
Does state have term limits for legislators?
- trump2016
Vote share for Trump in 2016 election
- trump2016.ev
Electoral College votes for Trump in 2016 election
- trump2020
Two-party vote share for Trump in 2020 election
- trump2020.ev
Electoral college votes for Trump in 2020 election
- turnout.20vs16
Difference in voter turnout in 2020 compared to 2016
- under18
Percentage of population under age 18
- unemployment
State unemployment rate
- uninsured
No health insurance coverage
- unionized
Percent of workers who are union members
- unionized.4cat
Ordinal-level measurement of state's percentage union membership
- urban
Percent urban population
- vep16.turnout
Percent turnout of voting eligible population in 2016
- vep18.turnout
Percent turnout of voting eligible population in 2018
- vep20.turnout
Percent turnout of voting eligible population in 2020
- volunteer.hrs.pc
Volunteer hours per resident
- volunteer.rate
Volunteer rate
- voter.id.law
Voter identification law in effect in 2017
- white.percent
Percentage of population white
- women.stateleg
Percent of state legislators who are women
Source
Data sources vary. See Appendix of printed textbook for further information.
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