This dataset contains the data that supports the article, "Higher Rates of Hate Crimes Are Tied to Income Inequality", published by FiveThirtyEight on 23 January, 2017, authored by Maimuna Majumder.
hate_crimesA data frame with 51 rows and 12 variables:
statecharacter State name
median_household_incomeinteger Median household income, 2016
share_unemployed_seasonaldouble Share of the population that is unemployed
share_population_in_metro_areasdouble Share of the population that lives in metropolitan areas, 2015
share_population_with_high_school_degreedouble Share of adults 25 and older with a high-school degree, 2009
share_non_citizendouble Share of the population that are not U.S. citizens, 2015
share_white_povertydouble Share of white residents who are living in poverty, 2015
gini_indexdouble Gini Index, 2015
share_non_whitedouble Share of the population that is not white, 2015
share_voters_voted_trumpdouble Share of 2016 U.S. presidential voters who voted for Donald Trump
hate_crimes_per_100k_splcdouble Hate crimes per 100,000 population, Southern Poverty Law Center, Nov. 9-18, 2016
avg_hatecrimes_per_100k_fbidouble Average annual hate crimes per 100,000 population, FBI, 2010-2015
summary(hate_crimes)
#> state median_household_income share_unemployed_seasonal
#> Length:51 Min. :35521 Min. :0.02800
#> Class :character 1st Qu.:48657 1st Qu.:0.04200
#> Mode :character Median :54916 Median :0.05100
#> Mean :55224 Mean :0.04957
#> 3rd Qu.:60719 3rd Qu.:0.05750
#> Max. :76165 Max. :0.07300
#>
#> share_population_in_metro_areas share_population_with_high_school_degree
#> Min. :0.3100 Min. :0.7990
#> 1st Qu.:0.6300 1st Qu.:0.8405
#> Median :0.7900 Median :0.8740
#> Mean :0.7502 Mean :0.8691
#> 3rd Qu.:0.8950 3rd Qu.:0.8980
#> Max. :1.0000 Max. :0.9180
#>
#> share_non_citizen share_white_poverty gini_index share_non_white
#> Min. :0.01000 Min. :0.04000 Min. :0.4190 Min. :0.0600
#> 1st Qu.:0.03000 1st Qu.:0.07500 1st Qu.:0.4400 1st Qu.:0.1950
#> Median :0.04500 Median :0.09000 Median :0.4540 Median :0.2800
#> Mean :0.05458 Mean :0.09176 Mean :0.4538 Mean :0.3157
#> 3rd Qu.:0.08000 3rd Qu.:0.10000 3rd Qu.:0.4665 3rd Qu.:0.4200
#> Max. :0.13000 Max. :0.17000 Max. :0.5320 Max. :0.8100
#> NA's :3
#> share_voters_voted_trump hate_crimes_per_100k_splc avg_hatecrimes_per_100k_fbi
#> Min. :0.040 Min. :0.06745 Min. : 0.2669
#> 1st Qu.:0.415 1st Qu.:0.14271 1st Qu.: 1.2931
#> Median :0.490 Median :0.22620 Median : 1.9871
#> Mean :0.490 Mean :0.30409 Mean : 2.3676
#> 3rd Qu.:0.575 3rd Qu.:0.35694 3rd Qu.: 3.1843
#> Max. :0.700 Max. :1.52230 Max. :10.9535
#> NA's :4 NA's :1