facts: US State Facts

In usa: Updated US State Facts and Figures

Description

Updated version of the datasets::state.x77 matrix, which provides eights statistics from the 1970's. This version is a modern data frame format with updated (and alternative) statistics.

Usage

facts

Format

A tibble with 52 rows and 9 variables:

name

Full state name

population

Population estimate (September 26, 2019)

admission

The data which the state was admitted to the union

income

Per capita income (2018)

life_exp

Life expectancy in years (2017-18)

murder

Murder rate per 100,000 population (2018)

high

Percent adult population with at least a high school degree (2019)

bach

Percent adult population with at least a bachelor's degree or greater (2019)

heat

Mean number of degree days (temperature requires heating) per year from 1981-2010

Source

• Population: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/datasets/2010-2018/state/detail/SCPRC-EST2018-18+POP-RES.csv

• Income: https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?tid=ACSST1Y2018.S1903

• GDP: https://www.bea.gov/system/files/2019-11/qgdpstate1119.xlsx

• Literacy: https://nces.ed.gov/naal/estimates/StateEstimates.aspx

• Life Expectancy: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/aq.html

• Murder: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/table-4/table-4.xls/output.xls

• Education: https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=S1501

• Temperature: ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/1981-2010/products/temperature/ann-cldd-normal.txt

usa documentation built on Feb. 23, 2020, 5:06 p.m.