us_state_populations: Populations of US states and territories, 1790-2020

us_state_populationsR Documentation

Populations of US states and territories, 1790-2020

Description

Population figures for US states and territories from the decennial census.

Usage

us_state_populations

Format

A data frame with 1034 observations of 4 variables.

Variables

  • year: date of the census.

  • state: name of the state or territory.

  • population: population of the state or territory.

  • GISJOIN: a unique identifier for joining NHGIS data to spatial data.

References

This dataset has been gathered by the NHGIS. Steven Manson, Jonathan Schroeder, David Van Riper, Katherine Knowles, Tracy Kugler, Finn Roberts, and Steven Ruggles. IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 19.0 \[dataset\]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS, 2024. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.18128/D050.V19.0")}

Examples

head(us_state_populations)

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