Geographical Analysis Spatial Data

This georeferenced data set was used in:

Pace, R. Kelley, and Ronald Barry, Quick Computation of Regressions with a Spatially 
Autoregressive Dependent Variable, Geographical Analysis, Volume 29, Number 3, July 
1997, p. 232-247. 

It contains 3,107 observations on U.S. county votes cast in the 1980 presidential election. 
Specifically, it contains the total number of votes cast in the 1980 presidential election per 
county (VOTES), the population in each county of 18 years of age or older (POP), the 
population in each county with a 12th grade or higher education (EDUCATION), the 
number of owner-occupied housing units (HOUSES), the aggregate income (INCOME), the X 
spatial coordinate of the county (XCOORD), and the Y spatial coordinate of the county 
(YCOORD). 

The dependent variable is the log of the proportion of votes cast for both candidates in the 
1980 presidential election. Hence, we can express our dependent variable as ln(VOTES/ 
POP) = ln(VOTES)-ln(POP). 

The overall data set has the following structure

[ln(VOTES/POP) POP EDUCATION HOUSES INCOME XCOORD YCOORD] 

Additional details can be found, along with other data, manuscripts, free spatial software, and
so forth, at www.spatial-statistics.com or www.finance.lsu.edu/re (follow the spatial statistics
link). In particular, the above mentioned manuscript which used the data is available for 
download. If you have any questions, send an email to kelley@spatial-statistics.com.