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the American Community Survey (ACS) data

Source: R/us_states_df.R
us_states_df.Rd

The object loaded is a data.frame object containing the US states data from the American Community Survey (ACS)

Usage

us_states_df

Format

Formal class 'data.frame'; the data contains a data.frame with 51 obs. of 5 variables:

  • state: character vector of state names

  • median_income_10: numerical vector of median income in 2010

  • median_income_15: numerical vector of median income in 2010

  • poverty_level_10: numerical vector of number of people with income below poverty level in 2010

  • poverty_level_15: numerical vector of number of people with income below poverty level in 2015

Source

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/

See also

See the tidycensus package: https://cran.r-project.org/package=tidycensus

Examples

data(us_states_df)

summary(us_states_df)
#>     state           median_income_10 median_income_15 poverty_level_10 
#>  Length:51          Min.   :20019    Min.   :21438    Min.   :  52297  
#>  Class :character   1st Qu.:23995    1st Qu.:24952    1st Qu.: 204702  
#>  Mode  :character   Median :25432    Median :26943    Median : 577247  
#>                     Mean   :26144    Mean   :27500    Mean   : 802304  
#>                     3rd Qu.:29072    3rd Qu.:30376    3rd Qu.: 822568  
#>                     Max.   :35264    Max.   :40884    Max.   :4919945  
#>  poverty_level_15 
#>  Min.   :  64995  
#>  1st Qu.: 238146  
#>  Median : 636947  
#>  Mean   : 936256  
#>  3rd Qu.: 961445  
#>  Max.   :6135142