TravelTime2011.1dec: Mean travel times to work, from 2011 ACS, rounded to 1...

Description Usage Format Details Source

Description

A dataset containing the estimated mean travel time (in minutes) to work of workers 16 years and over who did not work at home (henceforth "mean travel time to work"), and its estimated Margin of Error at the 90% confidence level, for each of the 51 states (including Washington, D.C.), from the 2011 American Community Survey.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 51 rows and 7 variables:

Rank

state rank, by estimated mean travel time, where 1 is lowest travel time and 51 is highest

State

full name of the state

Estimate.1dec

estimated mean travel time, in minutes

MOE.1dec

estimated Margin of Error (at the 90% confidence level) of the estimated mean travel time, in minutes

Abbreviation

postal abbreviation of the state

Region

factor variable for geographic region of the state: Northeast, South, Midwest, West, Pacific

FIPS

Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code of the state; may be useful for linking with other datasets

Details

Due to rounding, some ranks are tied in this version of the data. Also note that this dataset reports Margins of Error (MoEs) instead of standard errors.

Source

https://www.census.gov/


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