states: State demographic data

statesR Documentation

State demographic data

Description

A dataset containing demographic and geographic information for all 50 U.S. states. Most data is from the 1970s.

Usage

states

Format

A data frame with 50 rows and 9 variables:

Population

Population estimate, 1975

Income

Per capita income, 1974

Illiteracy

Adult lliteracy rate, 1970

Life Exp

Life expectancy in years

Murder

Murder and non-negligent manslaughter rate per 100,000 population, 1976

HS Grad

Percent of adults with high-school diploma or equivalent, 1970

Frost

Mean number of days with minimum temperature below freezing in capital or large city, 1931-1960

Area

Land area in square miles

Region

Region of country in which state is located

Source

Data set created from state.x77 and state.region in the datasets package. See state.x77 for more detail about the data set.


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