area_MetroYY_XX_Data: Metro Combined Statistics Area datasets for County or census...

In SeerMapper: A Quick Way to Map U.S. Rates and Data of U.S. States, Counties, Census Tracts, or Seer Registries using 2000 and 2010 U.S. Census Boundaries

Description

This document described the contain of eight datasets included in the package. They represent demographic data at the county level and census tract level for the Washington-Baltimore and Kansas City Metro Combined Statistical areas for the 2000 and 2010 census years. Each metro area cosists of counties or tracts in multiple states. The Washington-Baltimore Metro CSA consists of an area that covers 5 states/districts (Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virinia, and the District of Columbia) and includes 40 counties and 2178 census tracts. The Kansas City Metro CSA consists of an area that covers 2 states (Kansas and Missouri) and 22 counties and 604 census tracts.

Usage

data(WashBaltMetro_Co_Data)

Format

The format of each datasets is the same. The only difference is the location ID used in each data set and the number of records and census year of the data. The file naming convention is: nnnnnMetroYY_AA_Data, where nnnnn is the name of the metro area (KC or WashBalt), YY is "" for census year 2000 and "10" for census year 2010, and AA is the type of sub-areas ("Co" = country, and "Tr" = census tract.) In the county datasets, the location ID is the 5 digit state/county FIPS code. In the census tract datasets, the location ID is the 11 digit state/county/tract FIPS code.

These datasets are used to demonstrate how SeerMapper can work with county or census tracts data to create maps across multiple states.

The Kansas City and Washington-Baltimore Combined Statistics Area 2000 data at the county and census tract level contains the following demographic data for each sub-area. The data contains 9 columns:

FIPS

is a character vector of the U.S. State/County/Tract FIPS code (11 digits)

pop2000

is an integer containing the 2000 tract population.

age.65.up

is an integer representing the population of the people with the age of 65 or higher.

hh.units

is an integer representing the number of physical household units in the census tract.

hh.occupied

is an integer representing the number of hh.units that are occupied. (hh.units-hh.occupied) equals the number of households vacant.

hh.owner

is an integer representing the number of occupied household units owned by the occupants. (hh.occupied-hh.owner) equals the number of units that are occupied by renters.

areasm

is a numeric area of the tract in square miles.

popdens

is a numeric containing the 2000 population density of the tract.

Source

The U. S. Census Bureau 2000 and 2010 census tract demographic dataset from the CENSUS.GOV website demographic data files for the 2000 census as pulled on February, 2017. The R package UScensus2000tract was used to get the census tract data based on the 2001 release. The dataset was then aggregated to create the county dataset.

SeerMapper documentation built on Jan. 15, 2021, 3:16 p.m.