Income: Mean household income at lcoal authorities in Greece in 2011

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Mean household income at lcoal authorities in Greece in 2011

Description

Municipality centroids and socioeconomic variables aggregated to the new local authority geography in Greece (Programme Kallikratis).

Usage

data(Income)

Format

A data frame with 325 observations on the following 5 variables.

X

a numeric vector of x coordinates

Y

a numeric vector of y coordinates

UnemrT01

a numeric vector of total unemployment rate in 2001 (Census)

PrSect01

a numeric vector of the proportion of economically active working in the primary financial sector (mainly agriculture; fishery; and forestry in 2001 (Census))

Foreig01

a numeric vector of proportion of people who do not have the Greek citizenship in 2001 (Census)

Income01

a numeric vector of mean recorded household income (in Euros) earned in 2001 and declared in 2002 tax forms

Details

The X,Y coordinates refer to the geometric centroids of the new 325 Municipalities in Greece (Programme Kallikratis) in 2011.

Source

The original shapefile of the corresponding polygons is available from the Hellenic Statistical Authority (EL.STAT.) at http://www.statistics.gr/el/digital-cartographical-data. The population, employment, citizenship and employment sector data is available from the Hellenic Statistical Authority (EL.STAT.) at http://www.statistics.gr/en/home but were aggregated to the new municipalities by the author. The income data are available from the General Secretariat of Information Systems in Greece at http://www.gsis.gr/ at the postcode level of geography and were aggregated to the new municipalities by the author.

References

Kalogirou, S., and Hatzichristos, T. (2007). A spatial modelling framework for income estimation. Spatial Economic Analysis, 2(3), 297-316. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17421770701576921

Kalogirou, S. (2010). Spatial inequalities in income and post-graduate educational attainment in Greece. Journal of Maps, 6(1), 393-400.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.4113/jom.2010.1095

Kalogirou, S. (2013) Testing geographically weighted multicollinearity diagnostics, GISRUK 2013, Department of Geography and Planning, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, 3-5 April 2013.

Examples

 data(Income)
 boxplot(Income$Income01)
 hist(Income$PrSect01)

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