midwest: Midwest demographics

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Midwest demographics

Description

Demographic information of midwest counties from 2000 US census

Usage

midwest

Format

A data frame with 437 rows and 28 variables:

PID

Unique county identifier.

county

County name.

state

State to which county belongs to.

area

Area of county (units unknown).

poptotal

Total population.

popdensity

Population density (person/unit area).

popwhite

Number of whites.

popblack

Number of blacks.

popamerindian

Number of American Indians.

popasian

Number of Asians.

popother

Number of other races.

percwhite

Percent white.

percblack

Percent black.

percamerindan

Percent American Indian.

percasian

Percent Asian.

percother

Percent other races.

popadults

Number of adults.

perchsd

Percent with high school diploma.

percollege

Percent college educated.

percprof

Percent with professional degree.

poppovertyknown

Population with known poverty status.

percpovertyknown

Percent of population with known poverty status.

percbelowpoverty

Percent of people below poverty line.

percchildbelowpovert

Percent of children below poverty line.

percadultpoverty

Percent of adults below poverty line.

percelderlypoverty

Percent of elderly below poverty line.

inmetro

County considered in a metro area.

category

Miscellaneous.

Details

Note: this dataset is included for illustrative purposes. The original descriptions were not documented and the current descriptions here are based on speculation. For more accurate and up-to-date US census data, see the acs package.

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