GWmodel (version 2.4-1)

DubVoter: Voter turnout data in Greater Dublin(SpatialPolygonsDataFrame)

Description

Voter turnout and social characters data in Greater Dublin for the 2002 General election and the 2002 census. Note that this data set was originally thought to relate to 2004, so for continuity we have retained the associated variable names.

Usage

data(DubVoter)

Format

A SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with 322 electoral divisions on the following 11 variables.

DED_ID

a vector of ID

X

a numeric vector of x coordinates

Y

a numeric vector of y coordinates

DiffAdd

percentage of the population in each ED who are one-year migrants (i.e. moved to a different address 1 year ago)

LARent

percentage of the population in each ED who are local authority renters

SC1

percentage of the population in each ED who are social class one (high social class)

Unempl

percentage of the population in each ED who are unemployed

LowEduc

percentage of the population in each ED who are with little formal education

Age18_24

percentage of the population in each ED who are age group 18-24

Age25_44

percentage of the population in each ED who are age group 25-44

Age45_64

percentage of the population in each ED who are age group 45-64

GenEl2004

percentage of population in each ED who voted in 2004 election

Details

Variables are from DubVoter.shp.

References

Kavanagh A (2006) Turnout or turned off? Electoral participation in Dublin in the early 21st Century. Journal of Irish Urban Studies 3(2):1-24

Harris P, Brunsdon C, Charlton M (2011) Geographically weighted principal components analysis. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 25 (10):1717-1736

Examples

data(DubVoter)
ls()
if (FALSE) {
spplot(Dub.voter,names(Dub.voter)[4:12])
}