This database contains information of homicides and selected socio-economic characteristics for counties surrounding Atlanta, GA. Data aggregated for three time periods: 1979-84 (steady decline in homicides), 1984-88 (stable period), and 1988-93 (steady increase in homicides).
atlanta_homicide
Format
An sf data frame with 90 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
- COFIPS
county FIPS code
- FIPSNO
fips code as numeric variable
- HR7983
homicide rate per 100,000 (1979-83)
- HR8487
homicide rate per 100,000 (1984-87)
- HR8895
homicide rate per 100,000 (1988-95)
- HC7983
homicide count (1979-83)
- HC8487
homicide count (1984-87)
- HC8895
homicide count (1988-95)
- PO7983
population total (1979-83)
- PO8487
population total (1984-87)
- PO8895
population total (1988-95)
- 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
Source
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,https://www.nttac.org/index.cfm?event=projectDetails&id=339.
Details
Sf object, unprojected. EPSG 4326: WGS84.
Examples
if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) { library(sf) data(atlanta_homicide) plot(atlanta_homicide["HR8995"]) }
