R: Postal Codes and AGS of Germany for a Choropleth Map

ChoroplethPostalCodesAndAGS_Germany {DataVisualizations} | R Documentation

## Postal Codes and AGS of Germany for a Choropleth Map

### Description

Zip Codes and Community Identification Number of Germany which can be used in a Choropleth Map.

### Usage

    data("ChoroplethPostalCodesAndAGS_Germany")

### Format

A data frame with 8702 observations on the following 4 variables.

`PLZ`

  German postal codes/zip codes

`Cls`

  Clustering aggregated of germany postal codes by `MTY` and `ITS` features

`AGS`

  It is the 'Amtlicher Gemeindeschluessel' (Community Identification Number) of German municipalities

`Names`

  Names of municipalities

### Details

CLS are the the labels of a MTS versus ITS Bayesian classification showing two main groups of low quota ('1') and high quota ('2') municipalities. Additionally, outliers are manually classified into two separated groups called sponsors ('3') and promoted ('4'). In the Bayesian Classification non classified data have the label '0'. If a 'AGS' code of a 'PLZ' was unclear than the label is 'NaN'.

Class | 0 | low quota | high quota | sponsors | promoted | non classified | unclear mapping
Labels | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | NaN
CountPerClass | 31 | 1325 | 7239 | 10 | 95 | 5 | 2

### Source

Generated for [Thrun/Ultsch, 2018] using the approach of [Ultsch/Behnisch, 2017].

### References

[Thrun/Ultsch, 2018] Thrun, M. C., & Ultsch, A. : Effects of the payout system of income taxes to municipalities in Germany, in Papiez, M. & Smiech,, S. (eds.), Proc. 12th Professor Aleksander Zelias International Conference on Modelling and Forecasting of Socio-Economic Phenomena, pp. 533-542, Cracow: Foundation of the Cracow University of Economics, Cracow, Poland, 2018.

[Ultsch/Behnisch, 2017] Ultsch, A., Behnisch, M.: Effects of the payout system of income taxes to municipalities in Germany, Applied Geography, Vol. 81, pp. 21-31, 2017.

### Examples

    data(ChoroplethPostalCodesAndAGS_Germany)
    str(ChoroplethPostalCodesAndAGS_Germany)

[Package DataVisualizations version 1.2.3 Index]