midwest: Midwest demographics

Description

Demographic information of midwest counties from 2000 US census

Usage

midwest

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 437 rows and 28 variables:

PID: Unique county identifier.
county: County name.
state: State to which county belongs to.
area: Area of county (units unknown).
poptotal: Total population.
popdensity: Population density (person/unit area).
popwhite: Number of whites.
popblack: Number of blacks.
popamerindian: Number of American Indians.
popasian: Number of Asians.
popother: Number of other races.
percwhite: Percent white.
percblack: Percent black.
percamerindan: Percent American Indian.
percasian: Percent Asian.
percother: Percent other races.
popadults: Number of adults.
perchsd: Percent with high school diploma.
percollege: Percent college educated.
percprof: Percent with professional degree.
poppovertyknown: Population with known poverty status.
percpovertyknown: Percent of population with known poverty status.
percbelowpoverty: Percent of people below poverty line.
percchildbelowpovert: Percent of children below poverty line.
percadultpoverty: Percent of adults below poverty line.
percelderlypoverty: Percent of elderly below poverty line.
inmetro: County considered in a metro area.
category: Miscellaneous.

Details

Note: this dataset is included for illustrative purposes. The original descriptions were not documented and the current descriptions here are based on speculation. For more accurate and up-to-date US census data, see the acs package.