These data are in Table 9.1 of the 3rd edition of Agresti and Finlay's *Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences*. The data are from *Statistical Abstract of the United States* and most variables were measured in 1993.
Format
A data frame with 51 observations on the following 8 variables.
state
a character vector for the state
violent
a numeric vector for the violent crime rate (per 100,000 people in population)
murder
a numeric vector for the murder rate (per 100,000 people in population)
poverty
a numeric vector for the percent with income below the poverty level
single
a numeric vector for the percent of families headed by a single parent
metro
a numeric vector for the percent of population in metropolitan areas
white
a numeric vector for the percentage of the state that is white
highschool
a numeric vector for the percent of state that graduated from high school