Police Expenditures in Mississippi (1982)

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

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

Source

Subset of Pitthom. Original data made available by George Tita, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, (gtita@uci.edu).

Details

Sf object, unprojected. EPSG 4326: WGS84.

Examples

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