Homicides and selected socio-economic characteristics for counties surrounding St Louis, MO. Data aggregated for three time periods: 1979-84 (steady decline in homicides), 1984-88 (stable period), and 1988-93 (steady increase in homicides).
stlouishom
Format
An sf data frame with 78 rows, 23 variables, and a geometry column:
- FIPSNO
FIPS code as numeric variable
- 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)
- HR7984
Homicide rate per 100,000 (1979-84)
- HR8488
Homicide rate per 100,000 (1984-88)
- HR8893
Homicide rate per 100,000 (1988-93)
- HC7984
Homicide count (1979-84)
- HC8488
Homicide count (1984-88)
- HC8893
Homicide count (1988-93)
- PO7984
Population total (1979-84)
- PO8488
Population total (1984-88)
- PO8893
Population total (1988-93)
- PE77
Police expenditures per capita, 1977
- 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
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) (www.ncovr.heinz.cmu.edu).
Details
Sf object, unprojected. EPSG 4326: WGS84.
Examples
if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) { library(sf) data(stlouishom) plot(stlouishom["HC8893"]) }
