Statewide Crime Data 2009¶
Description¶
State crime data 2009
Notes¶
Number of observations: 51
Number of variables: 8
Variable name definitions:
state
All 50 states plus DC.
violent
Rate of violent crimes / 100,000 population. Includes murder, forcible
rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Numbers for Illinois and
Minnesota do not include forcible rapes. Footnote included with the
American Statistical Abstract table reads:
"The data collection methodology for the offense of forcible
rape used by the Illinois and the Minnesota state Uniform Crime
Reporting (UCR) Programs (with the exception of Rockford, Illinois,
and Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota) does not comply with
national UCR guidelines. Consequently, their state figures for
forcible rape and violent crime (of which forcible rape is a part)
are not published in this table."
murder
Rate of murders / 100,000 population.
hs_grad
Percent of population having graduated from high school or higher.
poverty
% of individuals below the poverty line
white
Percent of population that is one race - white only. From 2009 American
Community Survey
single
Calculated from 2009 1-year American Community Survey obtained obtained
from Census. Variable is Male householder, no wife present, family
household combined with Female householder, no husband present, family
household, divided by the total number of Family households.
urban
% of population in Urbanized Areas as of 2010 Census. Urbanized
Areas are area of 50,000 or more people.
Source¶
All data is for 2009 and was obtained from the American Statistical Abstracts except as indicated below.
Copyright¶
Public domain.