latticeExtra (version 0.6-9)

ancestry: Modal ancestry by County according to US 2000 Census

Description

This data set records the population and the three most frequently reported ancestries by US county, according to the 2000 census.

Usage

data(ancestry)

Arguments

source

U.S. Census Bureau. The ancestry data were extracted from Summary File 3: http://factfinder.census.gov/jsp/saff/SAFFInfo.jsp?_pageId=sp4_decennial_sf3 which is based on the long form questionnaire (asked to 1 in 6 households surveyed).

References

http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf3.pdf

See Also

mapplot, for examples.