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Crime Rate Data Description

This document summarizes crime rate data from two time points 10 years apart for various US states. It describes 14 variables in the dataset including the main dependent variable of crime rate measured as offenses per million population. Other variables include measures of youth demographics, education, employment, wages, police expenditure, and whether states are in the southern US. The data will be used to analyze the relationship between crime rate and factors like police expenditure, low-income families, and wages.

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Crime Rate Data Description

This document summarizes crime rate data from two time points 10 years apart for various US states. It describes 14 variables in the dataset including the main dependent variable of crime rate measured as offenses per million population. Other variables include measures of youth demographics, education, employment, wages, police expenditure, and whether states are in the southern US. The data will be used to analyze the relationship between crime rate and factors like police expenditure, low-income families, and wages.

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Poonam Naidu
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Crime Rate Data description

This data set gives a variety of variables by US state at two time points 10 years apart. The
main scale dependent being Crime Rate (offences per million population).Mostly discrete
variables as they measure populations per 1000, there are some continuous variables such
as those measuring expenditure. Below is a description of the variables in the data set.

Variable Description

CrimeRate Crime rate (number of offences per million Continuous


population)

Youth Young males (number of males aged 18-24 per Discrete


1000)

Southern Southern state 1 = yes, 0 = no Binary

Education Education time (average number of years Discrete


schooling up to 25)

ExpenditureYear0 Expenditure (per capita expenditure on police) Continuous


skewed

LabourForce Youth labour force (males employed 18-24 per Discrete


1000)

Males Males (per 1000 females) Discrete

MoreMales More males identified per 1000 females 1 = yes, Binary


0 = no

StateSize State size (in hundred thousands) Discrete

YouthUnemployment Youth Unemployment (number of males aged Discrete


18-24 per 1000) skewed

MatureUnemployment Mature Unemployment (number of males aged Discrete


35-39 per 1000)

HighYouthUnemploy High Youth Unemployment 1 = yes, 0 = no Binary


(high if Youth >3*Mature )

Wage Wage (median weekly wage) Continuous

BelowWage Below Wage (number of families below half Discrete


wage per 1000)
Questions

1. Summarise the crime data


2. Find the relationship between crime rate and :-
i. police expenditure
ii. number of families below half wage per 1000

3. Can the wage predict the crime rate.


4. What factors can be used to explain the crime rate

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