Description

Data from a 1970's study on the relationship between insurance redlining in Chicago and racial composition, fire and theft rates, age of housing and income in 47 zip codes. Missing values have been randomly added.

Usage

Format

This dataframe contains the following columns

race

racial composition in percent minority

fire

fires per 100 housing units

theft

theft per 1000 population

age

percent of housing units built before 1939

involact

new FAIR plan policies and renewals per 100 housing units

income

median family income in thousands of dollars

side

North or South side of Chicago

Source

Adapted from "Data : A Collection of Problems from Many Fields for the Student and Research Worker" by D. Andrews and A. Herzberg published by Springer-Verlag, in 1985