mspolice: Police Expenditures in Mississippi (1982)

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Description

Police expenditures, crime and socio-economic characteristics for Mississippi counties, 1982.

Usage

mspolice

Format

An sf data frame with 82 rows, 21 variables, and a geometry column:

AREA

County polygon area (computed by ArcView)

PERIMETER

County polygon perimeter (computed by ArcView)

CNTY

County internal ID

CNTY_ID

County ID

NAME

County name

STATE_NAME

State name

STATE_FIPS

FIPS code for state (character)

CNTY_FIPS

FIPS code for county (character)

FIPS

Complete FIPS code, state combined with county (character)

FIPSNO

FIPS code (numeric)

POLICE

Police expenditures per capita, 1982 (dollars per person)

POP

County population, 1982

TAX

Total taxes per capita, 1982 (dollars per person)

TRANSFER

State and federal revenues per capita, 1982 (1,000 dollars per person)

INC

Personal income per county resident, 1982 (dollars per person)

CRIME

Number of serious crimes per 100,000 residents, 1981

UNEMP

Percent unemployed in 1980

OWN

Percent owner-occupied housing units, 1980

COLLEGE

Percent county residents that attended college, 1980

WHITE

Percent county residents that are white, 1980

COMMUTE

Percent county workers that commuted outside county, 1980

Details

Sf object, unprojected. EPSG 4326: WGS84.

Source

Subset of Pitthom. Original data made available by George Tita, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, ([e-mail]).

Examples

if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
  library(sf)
  data(mspolice)
  plot(mspolice["POLICE"])
}

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