Georgia census data set (SpatialDataFramePolygons)

The Georgia census data set from Fotheringham et al. (2002) in shapefile format.

data(georgia)

Format

A SpatialPolygonsDataFrame object (proj4string set to "+proj=longlat +datum=NAD27").

The "data" slot is a data frame with 159 observations on the following 13 variables.

AreaKey

a numeric vector

Latitude

a numeric vector

Longitud

a numeric vector

TotPop90

a numeric vector

PctRural

a numeric vector

PctBach

a numeric vector

PctEld

a numeric vector

PctFB

a numeric vector

PctPov

a numeric vector

PctBlack

a numeric vector

ID

a numeric vector

X

a numeric vector

Y

a numeric vector

Details

Variables are from GWR3 file GeorgiaData.csv.

Source

Originally: http://www.census.gov/geo/cob/bdy/co/co90shp/co13_d90_shp.zip, currently behind: https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/cbf/cbf_counties.html choosing 1990 Census and Georgia; http://gwr.nuim.ie/

References

Fotheringham, A.S., Brunsdon, C., and Charlton, M.E., 2002, Geographically Weighted Regression: The Analysis of Spatially Varying Relationships, Chichester: Wiley.

Examples

data(georgia)
plot(gSRDF)
data(gSRouter)