county: United States Counties

In JECheadle/RSOC317L: Data Sets and Supplemental Functions from David Diez's 'OpenIntro' Textbook

Description

Data for 3142 counties in the United States. See the county_complete data set for additional variables.

Usage

data(county)

Format

A data frame with 3142 observations on the following 14 variables.

name

County names.

state

State names.

pop2000

Population in 2000.

pop2010

Population in 2010.

pop2017

Population in 2017.

pop_change

Population change from 2010 to 2017.

poverty

Percent of population in poverty in 2017.

homeownership

Homeownership rate, 2006-2010.

multi_unit

Percent of housing units in multi-unit structures, 2006-2010.

unemployment_rate

Unemployment rate in 2017.

metro

Whether the county contains a metropolitan area.

median_edu

Median education level (2013-2017).

per_capita_income

Per capita (per person) income (2013-2017).

median_hh_income

Median household income.

smoking_ban

Describes whether the type of county-level smoking ban in place in 2010, taking one of the values "none", "partial", or "comprehensive".

Source

These data were collected from http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/ (no longer available) and its accompanying pages.

References

~~ OpenIntro Statistics, openintro.org ~~

See Also

county_complete

Examples

data(county)
dim(county)
head(county)

JECheadle/RSOC317L documentation built on May 15, 2019, 4:02 a.m.