us_state_populations: Populations of US states and territories, 1790-2010
Description
Population figures for US states and territories from the decennial census.
Usage
us_state_populations
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 983 observations of 4 variables.
Variables
year: date of the census.
state: name of the state or territory.
population: population of the state or territory.
GISJOIN: a unique identifier for joining NHGIS data to spatial
data.
References
This dataset has been gathered by the
NHGIS. Minnesota Population Center,
National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 2.0
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2011).