sarna: Population estimates of American Jews

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Description

This dataset contains estimates of the population of American Jews.

Usage

sarna

Format

A data frame with 92 observations of 3 variables.

Variables

• year: date of estimate.

• estimate: the type of estimate. population_low and population_high are the lower and upper bounds on the population of American Jews; percentage_high and percentage_low are the lower and upper bounds on the percentage of Jews among the United States population.

• value: the value of the estimate.

References

This data is taken from the appendix in Jonathan D. Sarna, American Judaism: A History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), 375-376.

Examples

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