reg: Voter Registration in US Southern States

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Voter Registration in US Southern States

Description

This data set contains the racial composition, the registration rate, the number of eligible voters as well as the actual observed racial registration rates for every county in four US southern states: Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

Format

A data frame containing 5 variables and 275 observations

X	numeric	the fraction of Black voters
Y	numeric	the fraction of voters who registered themselves
N	numeric	the total number of voters in each county
W1	numeric	the actual fraction of Black voters who registered themselves
W2	numeric	the actual fraction of White voters who registered themselves

References

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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