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Codebook for Crime Data

This data is county level data on crime during the mid-1980s. The unit of analysis is a county, so each observation (each row) represents a county-year.

crmrte: Crime rate = crimes committed per person

avgsent: Average sentence = average sentence in days

polpc: Police per capita

density: Population density = number of people per square mile (in thousands)

taxpc: Tax revenue per capita (in thousands of dollars)