County level voting and demographics data for California counties.
Source:R/data.R
cali_counties.RdDemographics sourced from census.gov in 2019. Voting records from https://github.com/tonmcg/US_County_Level_Election_Results_08-16, sourced from The Guardian (2012) and Townhall.com (2016)
Format
cali_counties
A data frame with 3142 rows and 65 columns:
- FIPS
Five digit Federal Information Processing Standards code that uniquely identifies counties and county equivalents in the United States
- state
State name
- county_state
County and state names for display
- state_abbrv
State abbreviation
- county
County name
- pop_estimate16
Population in the county in 2016
- any_college
Percent of the county that attended college for some period of time, regardless of whether they got a degree.
- college_2cat_num
Coded as 1 if the county is categorized as high college attendance, zero if low. See college_2cat for categorization rule.
- college_2cat
High college attendance counties have over 51.24% college attendance (any_college). Low college attendance counties have under 51.24% college attendance. The mean value of any_college is 51.24.
- prcnt_black
Percent of the county that is Black.
- prcnt_unemployed
Percent of the population that is unemployed but looking for employment in 2016.
- prcnt_unemployed_log
Logged percent of the population that is unemployed but looking for employment in 2016.
- median_income16
o Median household income in the county in 2016.
- median_income16_1k
Median household income in the county in 2016 in units of 1,000 dollars.
- r_shift
Percentage difference between the Republican presidential vote in that county in 2016 and 2012. For example, 46.7955% of Kent County in Delaware (FIPS 20001) voted for Romney in 2012. In 2016, 49.81482% of that county voted for Trump. Therefore, the county shifted towards the Republican presidential candidate by 3.01325%. Positive value mean leaning more Republican; negative values mean leaning less Republican.
- prcnt_GOP16
Percent of the county that voted for the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, in 2016.
- plurality_Trump16
Binary: 0 if less than a plurality of the county that voted for the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, in 2016. 1 otherwise