sarna: Population estimates of American Jews
Description
This dataset contains estimates of the population of American Jews.
Format
A data frame with 92 observations of 3 variables.Variables
-
year
: date of estimate.
-
estimate
: the type of estimate. population_low
and
population_high
are the lower and upper bounds on the population of
American Jews; percentage_high
and percentage_low
are the
lower and upper bounds on the percentage of Jews among the United States
population.
-
value
: the value of the estimate.
References
This data is taken from the appendix in Jonathan D. Sarna,
American Judaism: A History (New Haven: Yale University Press,
2004), 375-376.