R/southom.R

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#' Homicides in the South (1960-1990)
#'
#' Homicides and selected socio-economic characteristics for Southern U.S. counties (subset of NCOVR national data set). Data for four decennial census years: 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990.
#'
#' Sf object, unprojected. EPSG 4326: WGS84.
#'
#' @format An sf data frame with 1412 rows, 70 variables, and a geometry column:
#' \describe{
#'	\item{	NAME	}{	County name	}
#'	\item{	STATE_NAME	}{	State name	}
#'	\item{	STATE_FIPS	}{	State fips code (character)	}
#'	\item{	CNTY_FIPS	}{	County fips code (character)	}
#'	\item{	FIPS	}{	Combined state and county FIPS code (character)	}
#'	\item{	STFIPS	}{	State fips code (numeric)	}
#'	\item{	COFIPS	}{	County fips code (numeric)	}
#'	\item{	FIPSNO	}{	FIPS code as numeric variable	}
#'	\item{	SOUTH	}{	Dummy variable for Southern counties (South = 1)	}
#'	\item{	HR**	}{	Homicide rate per 100,000 population (1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990)	}
#'	\item{	HC**	}{	Homicide count, three year average centered on 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990	}
#'	\item{	PO**	}{	County population in 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990	}
#'	\item{	RD**	}{	Resource deprivation in 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990 (principal component)}
#'	\item{	PS**	}{	Population structure in 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990 (principal component)}
#'	\item{	UE**	}{	Unemployment rate in 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990	}
#'	\item{	DV**	}{	Divorce rate in 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990 (percentage= of males over 14 divorced)	}
#'	\item{	MA**	}{	Median age in 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990	}
#'	\item{	POL**	}{	Log of population in 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990	}
#'	\item{	DNL**	}{	Log of population density in 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990	}
#'	\item{	MFIL**	}{	Log of median family income in 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990	}
#'	\item{	FP**	}{	Percentage of families below poverty in 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990	}
#'	\item{	BLK**	}{	Percentage of black in 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990	}
#'	\item{	GI**	}{	Gini index of family income inequality in 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990	}
#'	\item{	FH**	}{	Percentage of female headed households in 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990	}
#'	}
#' @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, National Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR) (\url{www.ncovr.heinz.cmu.edu}).
#'
#' @examples
#' if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
#'   library(sf)
#'   data(southom)
#'   plot(southom["HR90"])
#' }
"southom"