Poverty percentage estimates (2014), state level

US census poverty percentage estimates by state for 2014.

The data is formatted for easy merging with output from us_map.

Usage

data(statepov)

Format

A data frame with 51 rows and 4 variables.

Details

• fips The 2-digit FIPS code corresponding to the state.

• abbr The 2-letter state abbreviation.

• full The full state name.

• pct_pov_2014 The 2014 poverty estimate (in percent of state population) for the corresponding state

References

• https://www.census.gov/topics/income-poverty/poverty.html

• https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/county-level-data-sets/