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Delining Homicide Rates

john-m-spens edited this page Feb 28, 2013 · 1 revision

Description

This is the data that was employed for my to demonstrate the decline in homicide trends in the us this blog post. The analysis includes two graphs and one data set, representing homicide rates in the US from 1960-2010 and for the largest 25 cities in the use for the years 1985 - 2010.

source directory: declining-homicide-rates

file: raw-state-homicide-data.csv

Scope

State level homicide counts for the years 1960 - 2010

Source

Federal Bureau of Investigations Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics Database (http://www.ucrdatatool.gov/)

Field Definitions

YEAR: Reporting year

STATE: State Name

POPULATION: Population of the state for the reporting year

HOMICIDES: Homicide counts for that state/reporting year

file: homicide-rates-in-top-25-US-cities.csv

Scope

Summary of Homicides by my city for the years 1985 - 2010

Cities: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Austin, San Francisco, Columbus, Fort Worth, Charlotte, Detroit, El Paso, Memphis, Boston, Seattle, Denver, Baltimore, Washington DC.

Source

Field Definitions

YEAR: Reporting year

CITY: City

POPULATION: Population of the state for the reporting year

HOMICIDES: Homicide counts for that city/reporting year

HOMICIDE-RATE: Homicides per 100K people in the city for the reporting year