Datafile Name: US Crime
Datafile Subjects:
Social science
Story Names:
US Crime
Reference: Vandaele, W. (1978) Participation in illegitimate activities: Erlich revisited. In Deterrence and incapacitation, Blumstein, A., Cohen, J. and Nagin, D., eds., Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 270-335.
Methods: A Primer, New York: Chapman & Hall, 11.
Also found in: Hand, D.J., et al. (1994) A Handbook of Small Data Sets, London: Chapman & Hall, 101-103.
Authorization: Contact author
Description: These data are crime-related and demographic statistics for 47 US states in 1960. The data were collected from the FBI's Uniform Crime Report and other government agencies to determine how the variable crime rate depends on the other variables measured in the study.
Number of cases: 47
Variable Names:
- R: Crime rate: # of offenses reported to police per million population
- Age: The number of males of age 14-24 per 1000 population
- S: Indicator variable for Southern states (0 = No, 1 = Yes)
- Ed: Mean # of years of schooling x 10 for persons of age 25 or older
- Ex0: 1960 per capita expenditure on police by state and local government
- Ex1: 1959 per capita expenditure on police by state and local government
- LF: Labor force participation rate per 1000 civilian urban males age 14-24
- M: The number of males per 1000 females
- N: State population size in hundred thousands
- NW: The number of non-whites per 1000 population
- U1: Unemployment rate of urban males per 1000 of age 14-24
- U2: Unemployment rate of urban males per 1000 of age 35-39
- W: Median value of transferable goods and assets or family income in tens of $
- X: The number of families per 1000 earning below 1/2 the median income
The Data:
R Age S Ed Ex0 Ex1 LF M N NW U1 U2 W X
79.1 151 1 91 58 56 510 950 33 301 108 41 394 261
163.5 143 0 113 103 95 583 1012 13 102 96 36 557 194
57.8 142 1 89 45 44 533 969 18 219 94 33 318 250
196.9 136 0 121 149 141 577 994 157 80 102 39 673 167
123.4 141 0 121 109 101 591 985 18 30 91 20 578 174
68.2 121 0 110 118 115 547 964 25 44 84 29 689 126
96.3 127 1 111 82 79 519 982 4 139 97 38 620 168
155.5 131 1 109 115 109 542 969 50 179 79 35 472 206
85.6 157 1 90 65 62 553 955 39 286 81 28 421 239
70.5 140 0 118 71 68 632 1029 7 15 100 24 526 174
167.4 124 0 105 121 116 580 966 101 106 77 35 657 170
84.9 134 0 108 75 71 595 972 47 59 83 31 580 172
51.1 128 0 113 67 60 624 972 28 10 77 25 507 206
66.4 135 0 117 62 61 595 986 22 46 77 27 529 190
79.8 152 1 87 57 53 530 986 30 72 92 43 405 264
94.6 142 1 88 81 77 497 956 33 321 116 47 427 247
53.9 143 0 110 66 63 537 977 10 6 114 35 487 166
92.9 135 1 104 123 115 537 978 31 170 89 34 631 165
75.0 130 0 116 128 128 536 934 51 24 78 34 627 135
122.5 125 0 108 113 105 567 985 78 94 130 58 626 166
74.2 126 0 108 74 67 602 984 34 12 102 33 557 195
43.9 157 1 89 47 44 512 962 22 423 97 34 288 276
121.6 132 0 96 87 83 564 953 43 92 83 32 513 227
96.8 131 0 116 78 73 574 1038 7 36 142 42 540 176
52.3 130 0 116 63 57 641 984 14 26 70 21 486 196
199.3 131 0 121 160 143 631 1071 3 77 102 41 674 152
34.2 135 0 109 69 71 540 965 6 4 80 22 564 139
121.6 152 0 112 82 76 571 1018 10 79 103 28 537 215
104.3 119 0 107 166 157 521 938 168 89 92 36 637 154
69.6 166 1 89 58 54 521 973 46 254 72 26 396 237
37.3 140 0 93 55 54 535 1045 6 20 135 40 453 200
75.4 125 0 109 90 81 586 964 97 82 105 43 617 163
107.2 147 1 104 63 64 560 972 23 95 76 24 462 233
92.3 126 0 118 97 97 542 990 18 21 102 35 589 166
65.3 123 0 102 97 87 526 948 113 76 124 50 572 158
127.2 150 0 100 109 98 531 964 9 24 87 38 559 153
83.1 177 1 87 58 56 638 974 24 349 76 28 382 254
56.6 133 0 104 51 47 599 1024 7 40 99 27 425 225
82.6 149 1 88 61 54 515 953 36 165 86 35 395 251
115.1 145 1 104 82 74 560 981 96 126 88 31 488 228
88.0 148 0 122 72 66 601 998 9 19 84 20 590 144
54.2 141 0 109 56 54 523 968 4 2 107 37 489 170
82.3 162 1 99 75 70 522 996 40 208 73 27 496 224
103.0 136 0 121 95 96 574 1012 29 36 111 37 622 162
45.5 139 1 88 46 41 480 968 19 49 135 53 457 249
50.8 126 0 104 106 97 599 989 40 24 78 25 593 171
84.9 130 0 121 90 91 623 1049 3 22 113 40 588 160