Ericksen {car}R Documentation

The 1980 U.S. Census Undercount

Description

The Ericksen data frame has 66 rows and 9 columns. The observations are 16 large cities, the remaining parts of the states in which these cities are located, and the other U. S. states.

Usage

Ericksen

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

minority
Percentage black or Hispanic.
crime
Rate of serious crimes per 1000 population.
poverty
Percentage poor.
language
Percentage having difficulty speaking or writing English.
highschool
Percentage age 25 or older who had not finished highschool.
housing
Percentage of housing in small, multiunit buildings.
city
A factor with levels: city, major city; state, state or state-remainder.
conventional
Percentage of households counted by conventional personal enumeration.
undercount
Preliminary estimate of percentage undercount.

Source

Ericksen, E. P., Kadane, J. B. and Tukey, J. W. (1989) Adjusting the 1980 Census of Population and Housing. Journal of the American Statistical Association 84, 927–944 [Tables 7 and 8].

References

Fox, J. (1997) Applied Regression, Linear Models, and Related Methods. Sage.


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