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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
Precent 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 household, no husband prsent, 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.

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