Homicides & Socio-Economics (1960-90)

Homicides and selected socio-economic characteristics for continental U.S. counties. Data for four decennial census years: 1960, 1970, 1980 and 1990.

ncovr

Format

An sf data frame with 3,085 rows, 69 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 (numeric)
COFIPS: County fips code (numeric)
FIPSNO: Fips code as numeric variable
SOUTH: Dummy variable for Southern counties (South = 1)
HRyy: Homicide rate per 100,000 for the years yy: 1960, 1970, 1980 and 1990.
HCyy: Homicide count, three year average centered on yy: 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990
POyy: County population for the years yy: 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990
RDyy: Resource deprivation for the years yy: 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990 (principal component)
PSyy: Population structure for the years yy: 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990 (principal component)
UEyy: Unemployment rate for the years yy: 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990
DVyy: Divorce rate for the years yy: 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990 (percentage of males over 14 divorced)
MAyy: Median age for the years yy: 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990
POLyy: Log of population for the years yy: 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990
DNLyy: Log of population density for the years yy: 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990
MFILyy: Log of median family income for the years yy: 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990
FPyy: Percentage of families below poverty for the years yy: 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990
BLKyy: Percentage of black for the years yy: 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990
GIyy: Gini index of family income inequality for the years yy: 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990
FHyy: Percentage of female headed households for the years yy: 1960, 1970, 1980, 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). https://geodacenter.github.io/data-and-lab/ncovr/

Details

Sf object, unprojected. EPSG 4326: WGS84.

Examples

if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
  library(sf)
  data(ncovr)

  plot(ncovr["PO60"])
}