R/doc_states.r

In floswald/EconData: Economics Datasets for R

#' @name US_states
#' @title Crosswalk of US State FIPS, Census Region and Division with PSID codes
#' @description produces a data.table with state names, FIPS 
#' abbreviations. Also includes census region and division and PSID state code.
#'
#' you will most likely want to merge this table into some 
#' dataset you come across and which is missing full state names,
#' or abbreviations, or FIPS code etc.
#' 
#' @docType data
#' @usage data(US_states)
#' @format long data.table
#' @source \url{http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/codes/state.html}, \url{http://www.census.gov/popest/about/geo/codes.html}
#' @author Florian Oswald
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