RegisteredVoters: A sample of the voter registration list for Wake County,...

In mdbeckman/dcData: Data Sets Accompanying DataComputing eBook

A sample of the voter registration list for Wake County, North Carolina in Fall 2010.

Description

These are data from the Wake County Board of Elections. As so often happens, the web sites with the documentation and data are no longer current.

Usage

data("RegisteredVoters")

Format

A data frame with 10,000 observations on the following 19 variables:

gender

M = male, F = female, U = unknown

party

Political affiliation: DEM = Democratic, LIB = Libertarian, REP = Republican, UNA = Unaffiliated

Age

age in years

race

race: A = Asian, B = black or African American, I = American Indian or Alaska Native, M = More than one race, O = Other, U = Undesignated, W = White

voter_reg_num

Unique serial number for each voter

last_name

Voter's last name

first_name

Voter's first name

midl_name

Voter's middle name

name_sufx

Suffix, if any, on the voter's name

mail_city

Component of voter's mailing address

mail_state_cd

Component of voter's mailing address

mail_street

Component of voter's mailing address

mail_zip_code

Component of voter's mailing address

registr_dt

Component of voter's mailing address

res_city

Component of voter's mailing address

res_state_cd

Component of voter's mailing address

res_unit_num

Component of voter's mailing address

res_zip_code

Component of voter's mailing address

voter_status

Status of the voter

Details

For additional fields, see the original documentation at http://msweb03.co.wake.nc.us/bordelec/Waves/boedatadescription.pdf

Source

The data file is publicly available from the Wake County (NC) Board of Elections. http://msweb03.co.wake.nc.us/bordelec/Waves/WavesDownload.asp. It's in a Windows self-extracting format. Prof. Shilad Sen of Macalester College (Saint Paul, MN) reformatted the data to accompany the DataComputing book.

The full data set, containing 583,092 records, is available at http://www.mosaic-web.org/go/Repository/DannyKaplan/WakeCountyBOE.Rdata You can access it by downloading the file, then loading it into your R session. The data frame is 'WakeCountyBOE'.

Examples

data(RegisteredVoters)
str(RegisteredVoters)

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