houstonhom: Houston Homicides 1980s-90s

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Description

Homicides and selected socio-economic characteristics for counties surrounding Houston, TX. Data aggregated for three time periods: 1979-84 (steady decline in homicides), 1984-88 (stable period), and 1988-93 (steady increase in homicides).

Usage

houstonhom

Format

An sf data frame with 52 rows, 23 variables, and a geometry column:

NAME

County name

STATE_NAME

State name

STATE_FIPS

State FIPS code (character)

CNTY_FIPS

County FIPS code (character)

FIPS

Combined state and county FIPS code (character)

STFIPS

State FIPS code (number)

COFIPS

County FIPS code (number)

FIPSNO

Combined state and county FIPS code (number)

HR8187

Homicide rate per 100,000 (1981-87)

HR8791

Homicide rate per 100,000 (1987-91)

HR9195

Homicide rate per 100,000 (1991-95)

HC8187

Homicide count (1981-87)

HC8791

Homicide count (1987-91)

HC9195

Homicide count (1991-95)

PO8187

Population total (1981-87)

PO8791

Population total (1987-91)

PO9195

Population total (1991-95)

PE77

Police expenditures per capita, 1977

PE82

Police expenditures per capita, 1982

PE87

Police expenditures per capita, 1987

RDAC80

Resource deprivation/affluence composite variable, 1980

RDAC85

Resource deprivation/affluence composite variable, 1985

RDAC90

Resource deprivation/affluence composite variable, 1990

Details

Sf object, unprojected. EPSG 4326: WGS84.

Source

S. Messner, L. Anselin, D. Hawkins, G. Deane, S. Tolnay, R. Baller (2000). An Atlas of the Spatial Patterning of County-Level Homicide, 1960-1990. Pittsburgh, PA, www.ncovr.heinz.cmu.edu

Examples

if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
  library(sf)
  data(houstonhom)

  plot(houstonhom["HR9195"])
}

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