census: Black Illiteracy Rates in 1910 US Census

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Black Illiteracy Rates in 1910 US Census

Description

This data set contains the proportion of the residents who are black, the proportion of those who can read, the total population as well as the actual black literacy rate and white literacy rate for 1040 counties in the US. The dataset was originally analyzed by Robinson (1950) at the state level. King (1997) recoded the 1910 census at county level. The data set only includes those who are older than 10 years of age.

Format

A data frame containing 5 variables and 1040 observations

X	numeric	the proportion of Black residents in each county
Y	numeric	the overall literacy rates in each county
N	numeric	the total number of residents in each county
W1	numeric	the actual Black literacy rate
W2	numeric	the actual White literacy rate

References

Robinson, W.S. (1950). “Ecological Correlations and the Behavior of Individuals.” American Sociological Review, vol. 15, pp.351-357.

King, G. (1997). “A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem: Reconstructing Individual Behavior from Aggregate Data”. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

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