ChoroplethPostalCodesAndAGS_Germany: Postal Codes and AGS of Germany for a Choropleth Map

ChoroplethPostalCodesAndAGS_GermanyR Documentation

Postal Codes and AGS of Germany for a Choropleth Map

Description

Zip Codes and Community Identification Number of Germany which can be used in a Choropleth Map.

Usage

data("ChoroplethPostalCodesAndAGS_Germany")

Format

A data frame with 8702 observations on the following 4 variables.

PLZ

German postal codes/zip codes

Cls

Clustering aggregated of germany postal codes by MTY and ITS features

AGS

It is the 'Amtlicher Gemeindeschluessel' (Community Identification Number) of German municipalities

Names

Names of municipalities

Details

CLS are the the labels of a MTS versus ITS Bayesian classification showing two main groups of low quota ('1') and high quota ('2') municipalities. Additionally, outliers are manually classified into two separated groups called sponsors ('3') and promoted ('4'). In the Bayesian Classification non classified data have the label '0'. If a 'AGS' code of a 'PLZ' was unclear than the label is 'NaN'.

Class 0 low quota high quota sponsors promoted non classified unclear mapping
Labels 0 1 2 3 4 5 NaN
CountPerClass 31 1325 7239 10 95 5 2

Source

Generated for [Thrun/Ultsch, 2018] using the approach of [Ultsch/Behnisch, 2017].

References

[Thrun/Ultsch, 2018] Thrun, M. C., & Ultsch, A. : Effects of the payout system of income taxes to municipalities in Germany, in Papiez, M. & Smiech,, S. (eds.), Proc. 12th Professor Aleksander Zelias International Conference on Modelling and Forecasting of Socio-Economic Phenomena, pp. 533-542, Cracow: Foundation of the Cracow University of Economics, Cracow, Poland, 2018.

[Ultsch/Behnisch, 2017] Ultsch, A., Behnisch, M.: Effects of the payout system of income taxes to municipalities in Germany, Applied Geography, Vol. 81, pp. 21-31, 2017.

Examples

data(ChoroplethPostalCodesAndAGS_Germany)
str(ChoroplethPostalCodesAndAGS_Germany)

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