courts: Civil rights case statistics

Description Usage Format Note

Description

Data relating to civil right court cases from the mid-1990s to 2001.

Usage

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data("courts")

Format

A dataframe with 150 rows and 3 columns.

TOTDAM

Total amount of damages awarded to plaintiff in USD.

BODINJ

A binary variable indicating whether a bodily injury was part of the claim.

Year

Year the lawsuit was filed. Categorized as follows:

  • 1Pre-1997

  • 21997

  • 31998

  • 41999

  • 52000

  • 62001

Note

The documentation does not auto-update. If one changes the base file, this documentation will no longer remain accurate.

Project 2 data.


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