Voter turnout data in Greater Dublin (sf)
DubVoter.RdVoter turnout and social characters data in Greater Dublin for the 2002 General election and the 2002 census. Note that this data set was originally thought to relate to 2004, so for continuity we have retained the associated variable names.
Usage
data(DubVoter)Format
A sf with 322 electoral divisions on the following 11 variables.
- DED_ID
a vector of ID
- X
a numeric vector of x coordinates
- Y
a numeric vector of y coordinates
- DiffAdd
percentage of the population in each ED who are one-year migrants (i.e. moved to a different address 1 year ago)
- LARent
percentage of the population in each ED who are local authority renters
- SC1
percentage of the population in each ED who are social class one (high social class)
- Unempl
percentage of the population in each ED who are unemployed
- LowEduc
percentage of the population in each ED who are with little formal education
- Age18_24
percentage of the population in each ED who are age group 18-24
- Age25_44
percentage of the population in each ED who are age group 25-44
- Age45_64
percentage of the population in each ED who are age group 45-64
- GenEl2004
percentage of population in each ED who voted in 2004 election
References
Kavanagh A (2006) Turnout or turned off? Electoral participation in Dublin in the early 21st Century. Journal of Irish Urban Studies 3(2):1-24
Harris P, Brunsdon C, Charlton M (2011) Geographically weighted principal components analysis. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 25 (10):1717-1736
