lctools (version 0.2-10)

GR.Municipalities: Municipalities in Greece in 2011

Description

Municipality boundaries and socioeconomic variables aggregated to the new local authority geography (Programme Kallikratis).

Usage

data(GR.Municipalities)

Format

A data frame with 325 observations on the following 14 variables.

OBJECTID

a numeric vector of area IDs

X

a numeric vector of x coordinates

Y

a numeric vector of y coordinates

Name

a character vector of municipality names (in greeklish)

CodeELSTAT

a character vector of municipality codes to link with data from the Hellenic Statistical Authority (EL.STAT.)

PopM01

a numeric vector of the total population for males in 2001 (Census)

PopF01

a numeric vector of the total population for females in 2001 (Census)

PopTot01

a numeric vector of the total population in 2001 (Census)

UnemrM01

a numeric vector of unemployment rate for males in 2001 (Census)

UnemrF01

a numeric vector of unemployment rate for females in 2001 (Census)

UnemrT01

a numeric vector of total unemployment rate in 2001 (Census)

PrSect01

a numeric vector of the proportion of economically active working in the primary financial sector (mainly agriculture; fishery; and forestry in 2001 (Census))

Foreig01

a numeric vector of proportion of people who do not have the Greek citizenship in 2001 (Census)

Income01

a numeric vector of mean recorded household income (in Euros) earned in 2001 and declared in 2002 tax forms

Details

The X,Y coordinates refer to the geometric centroids of the new 325 Municipalities in Greece (Programme Kallikratis) in 2011. The boundary data of the original shapefile have been simplified to reduce its detail and size. The polygon referring to Mount Athos has been removed as there is no data available for this politically autonomous area of Greece.

References

Kalogirou, S., and Hatzichristos, T. (2007). A spatial modelling framework for income estimation. Spatial Economic Analysis, 2(3), 297-316. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17421770701576921

Kalogirou, S. (2010). Spatial inequalities in income and post-graduate educational attainment in Greece. Journal of Maps, 6(1), 393-400.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.4113/jom.2010.1095

Kalogirou, S. (2013) Testing geographically weighted multicollinearity diagnostics, GISRUK 2013, Department of Geography and Planning, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, 3-5 April 2013.

Examples

data(GR.Municipalities)
boxplot(GR.Municipalities@data$Income01)
hist(GR.Municipalities@data$PrSect01)