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Impact of Gun Control Legislation in Washington, DC

john-m-spens edited this page Feb 28, 2013 · 3 revisions

Description

This is the data that was employed for my analysis of the impact of gun control legislation in effect in Washington, DC from 1977 to 2007.. See this blog post for a summary of my findings. The analysis includes two graphs and one data set, representing homicide rates in Washington DC for the years 1960 - 2010.

source directory: impact-of-gun-control-legislation-in-dc

file: homicide-statistics-dc-1960-2010.csv

This is a summary table created for generating charts, pivot tables, etc.

Scope

Homicides in Washington DC for the years 1960 through 2010.

Source

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

Field Definitions

YEAR: Reporting year

US_POPULATION: US Population for the reporting year

US-HOMICIDES: Number of homicides for that reporting year

US-HOMICIDE_RATE: Number of homicides per 100K people in the US for that reporting year

DC_POPULATION: Population of Washington DC for that reporting year

DC_HOMICIDES: Number of homicides for that reporting year

DC_HOMICIDE_RATE: Number of homicides per 100K people in Washington for that reporting year