GR.Municipalities: Municipalities in Greece in 2011

In lctools: Local Correlation, Spatial Inequalities, Geographically Weighted Regression and Other Tools

Description

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

Usage

data(GR.Municipalities)

Format

A data frame with 325 observations on the following 14 variables.

OBJECTID

a numeric vector of area IDs

X

a numeric vector of x coordinates

Y

a numeric vector of y coordinates

Name

a character vector of municipality names (in greeklish)

CodeELSTAT

a character vector of municipality codes to link with data from the Hellenic Statistical Authority (EL.STAT.)

PopM01

a numeric vector of the total population for males in 2001 (Census)

PopF01

a numeric vector of the total population for females in 2001 (Census)

PopTot01

a numeric vector of the total population in 2001 (Census)

UnemrM01

a numeric vector of unemployment rate for males in 2001 (Census)

UnemrF01

a numeric vector of unemployment rate for females in 2001 (Census)

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. The boundary data of the original shapefile have been simplified to reduce its detail and size. The polygon referring to Mount Athos has been removed as there is no data available for this politically autonomous area of Greece.

Source

The 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. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17421770701576921

Kalogirou, S. (2010). Spatial inequalities in income and post-graduate educational attainment in Greece. Journal of Maps, 6(1), 393-400.http://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. http://gisc.gr/?mdocs-file=1140&mdocs-url=false

Examples

data(GR.Municipalities)
boxplot(GR.Municipalities@data$Income01)
hist(GR.Municipalities@data$PrSect01)

Example output

Loading required package: reshape
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Loading required package: Formula
Loading required package: ggplot2

Attaching package: 'Hmisc'

The following objects are masked from 'package:base':

    format.pval, round.POSIXt, trunc.POSIXt, units

Loading required package: gdata
sh: 1: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
gdata: Unable to locate valid perl interpreter
gdata: 
gdata: read.xls() will be unable to read Excel XLS and XLSX files
gdata: unless the 'perl=' argument is used to specify the location of a
gdata: valid perl intrpreter.
gdata: 
gdata: (To avoid display of this message in the future, please ensure
gdata: perl is installed and available on the executable search path.)
sh: 1: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
gdata: Unable to load perl libaries needed by read.xls()
gdata: to support 'XLX' (Excel 97-2004) files.

gdata: Unable to load perl libaries needed by read.xls()
gdata: to support 'XLSX' (Excel 2007+) files.

gdata: Run the function 'installXLSXsupport()'
gdata: to automatically download and install the perl
gdata: libaries needed to support Excel XLS and XLSX formats.

Attaching package: 'gdata'

The following object is masked from 'package:Hmisc':

    combine

The following object is masked from 'package:stats':

    nobs

The following object is masked from 'package:utils':

    object.size

The following object is masked from 'package:base':

    startsWith

Loading required package: mice
Loading required package: pscl
Classes and Methods for R developed in the
Political Science Computational Laboratory
Department of Political Science
Stanford University
Simon Jackman
hurdle and zeroinfl functions by Achim Zeileis
Loading required package: MASS

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