SpatialML (version 1.8.2)

Income: Mean Household Income at the Local Authorities of Greece in 2011

Description

Municipality centroids and socio-economic variables aggregated to the new local authority geography in Greece (Programme Kallikratis).

Usage

data("Income")

Format

A data frame with 325 observations on the following 6 variables:

X

numeric; X coordinate of the municipality centroid.

Y

numeric; Y coordinate of the municipality centroid.

UnemrT01

numeric; total unemployment rate in 2001 (Census).

PrSect01

numeric; proportion of the economically active population working in the primary sector (mainly agriculture, fishery and forestry) in 2001 (Census).

Foreig01

numeric; proportion of inhabitants without Greek citizenship in 2001 (Census).

Income01

numeric; mean 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 325 municipalities in Greece established by the Kallikratis reform in 2011.

References

Kalogirou, S. and Hatzichristos, T. (2007) A spatial modelling framework for income estimation. Spatial Economic Analysis, 2(3), 297-316. tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1080/17421770701576921").

Kalogirou, S. (2010) Spatial inequalities in income and post-graduate educational attainment in Greece. Journal of Maps, 6(1), 393-400. tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.4113/jom.2010.1095").

Examples

data(Income)
boxplot(Income$Income01)
hist(Income$PrSect01)