diff --git a/urbanization-index/README.md b/urbanization-index/README.md index 6616e35..ab66681 100644 --- a/urbanization-index/README.md +++ b/urbanization-index/README.md @@ -7,25 +7,16 @@ How Urban Or Rural Is Your State? And What Does That Mean For The 2020 Election? `urbanization-state.csv` contains FiveThirtyEight's urbanization index for every state. This number is calculated via a weighted average based on each the population of each census tract in that state. - `urbanization-census-tract.csv` contains FiveThirtyEight's urbanization index for every census tract. Column | Description -------|------------ -`year` | -`source` | -`gis_year` | -`gisjoin` | -`geoid` | [Geographic Identifier](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/geo-identifiers.html) of the census tract -`lat_tract` | latitude of the center of the census tract -`long_tract` | lognitude of the center of the census tract -`population` | number of people living in the census tract according to data from the 2017 American Community Survey -`neworder` | -`distance` | -`radiuspop_5` | number of people living within a five-mile radius of the census tract -`dmin` | -`adj_radiuspop_5` | -`urbanindex` | a calculation of how urban or rural a given area is; calculated as the natural logarithm of `radiuspop_5` `statefips` | FIPS code for each state -`state` | Name of state \ No newline at end of file +`state` | Name of state +`gisjoin` | [Geographic Identifier](https://www.nhgis.org/user-resources/geographic-crosswalks)for the census tract from the 2010 census +`lat_tract` | Latitude of the center of the census tract +`long_tract` | Lognitude of the center of the census tract +`population` | Number of people living in the census tract according to 5-year American Community Survey data from 2017 +`adj_radiuspop_5` | Estimate of the number of people within a 5-mile radius of a census tract. For a census tract that is more than five miles away any other census tract, we adjust for the minimum distance to the nearest census tract (centroid to centroid) so that TK. +`urbanindex` | A calculation of how urban or rural a given area is; calculated as the natural logarithm of `adj_radiuspop_5`