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ChoroplethPostalCodesAndAGS_Germany: Postal Codes and AGS of Germany for a Choropleth Map

Description

Zip Codes and Community Identification Number of Germany which can be used in a Choropleth Map.

Usage

data("ChoroplethPostalCodesAndAGS_Germany")

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 8702 observations on the following 4 variables.

PLZ

German postal codes/zip codes

Cls

Clustering aggregated of germany postal codes by MTY and ITS features

AGS

It is the 'Amtlicher Gemeindeschluessel' (Community Identification Number) of German municipalities

Names

Names of municipalities

Details

CLS are the the labels of a MTS versus ITS Bayesian classification showing two main groups of low quota ('1') and high quota ('2') municipalities. Additionally, outliers are manually classified into two separated groups called sponsors ('3') and promoted ('4'). In the Bayesian Classification non classified data have the label '0'. If a 'AGS' code of a 'PLZ' was unclear than the label is 'NaN'.

Class0low quotahigh quotasponsorspromotednon classifiedunclear mapping
Labels012345NaN
CountPerClass3113257239109552

References

[Thrun/Ultsch, 2018] Thrun, M. C., & Ultsch, A. : Effects of the payout system of income taxes to municipalities in Germany, in Papiez, M. & Smiech,, S. (eds.), Proc. 12th Professor Aleksander Zelias International Conference on Modelling and Forecasting of Socio-Economic Phenomena, pp. 533-542, Cracow: Foundation of the Cracow University of Economics, Cracow, Poland, 2018.

[Ultsch/Behnisch, 2017] Ultsch, A., Behnisch, M.: Effects of the payout system of income taxes to municipalities in Germany, Applied Geography, Vol. 81, pp. 21-31, 2017.

Examples

Run this code
data(ChoroplethPostalCodesAndAGS_Germany)
str(ChoroplethPostalCodesAndAGS_Germany)

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