prison.us: US Prison Data

Description

Number of prisoners in each North American state, and the populations of those states from years 1977 to 2010

Usage

data(prison.us)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 34 observations on the following 103 variables.

Year: a numeric vector, the year
AL.num, AL.pop: numeric vectors
AK.num, AK.pop, AZ.num: numeric vectors
AZ.pop, AR.num, AR.pop: numeric vectors
CA.num, CA.pop, CO.num: numeric vectors
CO.pop, CT.num, CT.pop: numeric vectors
DE.num, DE.pop, FL.num: numeric vectors
FL.pop, GA.num, GA.pop: numeric vectors
HI.num, HI.pop, ID.num: numeric vectors
ID.pop, IL.num, IL.pop: numeric vectors
IN.num, IN.pop, IA.num: numeric vectors
IA.pop, KS.num, KS.pop: numeric vectors
KY.num, KY.pop, LA.num: numeric vectors
LA.pop, ME.num, ME.pop: numeric vectors
MD.num, MD.pop, MA.num: numeric vectors
MA.pop, MI.num, MI.pop: numeric vectors
MN.num, MN.pop, MS.num: numeric vectors
MS.pop, MO.num, MO.pop: numeric vectors
MT.num, MT.pop, NE.num: numeric vectors
NE.pop, NV.num, NV.pop: numeric vectors
NH.num, NH.pop, NJ.num: numeric vectors
NJ.pop, NM.num, NM.pop: numeric vectors
NY.num, NY.pop, NC.num: numeric vectors
NC.pop, ND.num, ND.pop: numeric vectors
OH.num, OH.pop, OK.num: numeric vectors
OK.pop, OR.num, OR.pop: numeric vectors
PA.num, PA.pop, RI.num: numeric vectors
RI.pop, SC.num, SC.pop: numeric vectors
SD.num, SD.pop, TN.num: numeric vectors
TN.pop, TX.num, TX.pop: numeric vectors
UT.num, UT.pop, VT.num: numeric vectors
VT.pop, VA.num, VA.pop: numeric vectors
WA.num, WA.pop, WV.num: numeric vectors
WV.pop, WI.num, WI.pop: numeric vectors
WY.num, WY.pop: numeric vectors
US.pop, US.num: numeric vectors, overall counts for the whole country

Details

This is a data set of the number of prisoners in each American state and the populations of those states, from 1977 to 2010. The number of prisoners are taken from December 31st, while the populations are estimates taken from July 1st based on the previous Census, except for pop.1980, which uses exact census data from 1980/04/01.

Warning: a scatterplot of US.pop shows a discontinuity around 2000.

Examples

Run this code

summary(prison.us)
if (FALSE)  # This plot shows a discontinuity around 2000.
plot(US.pop / 1e6 ~ Year, prison.us, main = "US population (millions)",
     las = 1, type = "b", col = "blue")

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