Homocides: Country-by-country homocide data

In dtkaplan/SDSdata: Data and utilities for the book Statistics for Data Science

Country-by-country homocide data

Description

Country-by-country homocide data

Usage

data(Homocides)

Format

A data.frame object with one row for each of about 287 countries in various years from 1800 to 2015. (Not all countries are represented for all years. Similarly, some variables have non-missing data for only a few years.) The unit of observation is a country in a year.

• country: The name of the country

• year the year of the observation

• population the estimated population

• total_deaths the total number of homicides. (Only for years 2002 and 2004.)

• murders_per_100k the age-adjusted murder rate per 100,000 people

• rate_females the female homocide rate, age adjusted, per 100,000 people

• rate_males like rate_females

• rate_over_60 like rate_females but gives the rate for people over age 60 (males and females)

• rate_15_29 like rate_over_60 but for people aged 15 to 29 years

• surface_area the country's surface area in square kilometers

• birth_rate the birth rate: the number of births per 1000 people

• population_15_19 count of the population aged 15 to 19 years

• female_15_19 the fraction of the population (%) that is female and aged 15 to 19

• male_15_19 the fraction of the population (%) that is male and aged 15 to 19

• male_unemployment the fraction of the male workforce that is unemployed

• youth_unemployment the fraction of youth (how defined?) that is not in school or employed

Details

The data have been put together from https://www.gapminder.org/data/

Source

The data themselves were scraped from the Gapminder site on July 25, 2019. Gapminder organizes the data in separate columns for each year. These have been gathered together so that the unit of observation is a country in a year.

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