A simple features object with geocoded information about respondents in the 1880 US Census with selected demographic information coded as dummy variables. The data are projected using EPSG: 32618 (WGS 84/UTM Zone 18N). The coordinates have been and jiggled to create unique coordinates for each observation.
data(Newark.sf)A simple features dataframe with 21,520 rows and 8 columns:
Unique identifier of record.
Dummy variable for ethnicity of respondent: 1 if Yankee, 0 otherwise.
Dummy variable for ethnicity of respondent: 1 if Irish, 0 otherwise.
Dummy variable for ethnicity of respondent: 1 if German, 0 otherwise.
Dummy variable for age of respondent: 1 if younger than 30 years old, 0 otherwise.
Dummy variable for marital status of respondent: 1 if married, 0 otherwise.
Dummy variable for place of birth of respondent: 1 if born in the US, 0 otherwise.
geometry of the simple features object
Paez, A., Ruiz, M., Lopez, F. & Logan, J. (2012). Measuring Ethnic Clustering and Exposure with the Q Statistic: An Exploratory Analysis of Irish, Germans, and Yankees in 1880 Newark.. Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
data(Newark.sf)
summary(Newark.sf)
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