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elect80: 1980 Presidential election results

Description

A data set for 1980 Presidential election results covering 3,107 US counties using geographical coordinates. In addition, three spatial neighbour objects, k4 not using Great Circle distances, dll using Great Circle distances, and e80_queen of Queen contiguities for equivalent County polygons taken from file co1980p020.tar.gz on the USGS National Atlas site, and a spatial weights object imported from elect.ford - a 4-nearest neighbour non-GC row-standardised object, but with coercion to symmetry.

Usage

data(elect80)

Arguments

Format

A SpatialPointsDataFrame with 3107 observations on the following 7 variables.

FIPS

a factor of county FIPS codes

long

a numeric vector of longitude values

lat

a numeric vector of latitude values

pc_turnout

Votes cast as proportion of population over age 19 eligible to vote

pc_college

Population with college degrees as proportion of population over age 19 eligible to vote

pc_homeownership

Homeownership as proportion of population over age 19 eligible to vote

pc_income

Income per capita of population over age 19 eligible to vote

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
data(elect80)
# }

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