R: 1980 Presidential election results

elect80 {spdep} | R Documentation

## 1980 Presidential election results

### Description

A data set for 1980 Presidential election results covering 3,107 US counties using geographical coordinates. In addition, three spatial neighbour objects, `k4` not using Great Circle distances, `dll` using Great Circle distances, and `e80_queen` of Queen contiguities for equivalent County polygons taken from file `co1980p020.tar.gz` on the USGS National Atlas site, and a spatial weights object imported from `elect.ford` - a 4-nearest neighbour non-GC row-standardised object, but with coercion to symmetry.

### Usage

    data(elect80)

### Format

A SpatialPointsDataFrame with 3107 observations on the following 7 variables.

`FIPS`

  a factor of county FIPS codes

`long`

  a numeric vector of longitude values

`lat`

  a numeric vector of latitude values

`pc_turnout`

  Votes cast as proportion of population over age 19 eligible to vote

`pc_college`

  Population with college degrees as proportion of population over age 19 eligible to vote

`pc_homeownership`

  Homeownership as proportion of population over age 19 eligible to vote

`pc_income`

  Income per capita of population over age 19 eligible to vote

### Source

Pace, R. Kelley and Ronald Barry. 1997. "Quick Computation of Spatial Autoregressive Estimators", in Geographical Analysis; sourced from the data folder in the Spatial Econometrics Toolbox for Matlab, http://www.spatial-econometrics.com/html/jplv7.zip, files `elect.dat` and `elect.ford` (with the final line dropped).

### Examples

    data(elect80)

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