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micromapST (version 1.0.5)

statePop2010: US State Population for 2010

Description

US State 2010 population data by race and Hispanic ethnicity.

Usage

statePop2010

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 51 observations (one per state) on the following 6 variables per state:
Hisp
an integer count of the Hispanic population
white
an integer count of the white population
black
an integer count of the black population
OtherWBH
an integer count of the population other than white, black or Hispanic
pctHisp
a numeric percentage of the Hispanic population to the total population
pctOtherWBH
a numeric percentage of the population other than white, black, or Hispanic
Each row has the state 2 character abbreviation as its row name.

Source

United States Census Bureau, Population Total by State, by Race, Combinations of Two Races, and not Hispanic or Latino, 2010 (Summary File 1, Table QT-P4), URL = http://factfinder2.census.gov/.

Details

The dataset contains 51 records, one for each state. The data represents the population count or percentage of the total population by race and Hispanic ethnicity within the state. This dataset is used by the micromapST examples.