R/minority.R

In loon.data: Data Used to Illustrate 'Loon' Functionality

#' @title Canadian Visible Minority Data 2006
#'
#' @description Population census count of various named
#'   visible minority groups in each of 33 major census metropolitan
#'   areas of Canada in 2006.
#'
#'   These data are from the 2006 Canadian census, publicly available from
#'   Statistics Canada.
#'
#'
#' @format A data frame with 33 rows and 18 variates
#' \describe{
#'  \item{Arab}{Number identifying as `Arab`.}
#'  \item{Black}{Number identifying as `Black`.}
#'  \item{Chinese}{Number identifying as `Chinese`.}
#'  \item{Filipino}{Number identifying as `Filipino`.}
#'  \item{Japanese}{Number identifying as `Japanese`.}
#'  \item{Korean}{Number identifying as `Korean`.}
#'  \item{Latin.American}{Number identifying as `Latin American`.}
#'  \item{Multiple.visible.minority}{Number identifying as being a member
#'  of more than one visible minority.}
#'  \item{South.Asian}{Number identifying as `South Asian`.}
#'  \item{Southeast.Asian}{Number identifying as `Southeast Asian`.}
#'  \item{Total.population}{Total population of the metropolitan census area.}
#'  \item{Visible.minority.not.included.elsewhere}{Number identifying as a
#'  member of a visible minority that was not included elsewhere.}
#'  \item{Visible.minority.population}{Total number identifying as a
#'  member of some visible minority.}
#'  \item{West.Asian}{Number identifying as `West Asian`.}
#'  \item{lat, long}{Latitude and longitude in degrees of the metropolitan census area.}
#'  \item{googleLat, googleLong}{Latitude and longitude in degrees determined
#'  using the Google Maps Geocoding API.}
#' }
#' `rownames(minority)` are the names of the metropolitan areas or cities.
#'
#' @author R.W. Oldford
#' @docType data
#' @name minority
#' @keywords census population social
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