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Creating infographics to in hopes to better disseminate data reporting the history of Black Americans
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Find total population numbers over which to "per capita" the prison population #9

Open jeffrey-kissel opened 4 years ago

jeffrey-kissel commented 4 years ago

These reports seem to be "per 100k residents" or some per capita number. Find out what population number was used to normalize them, and grab it as a function of year for all the years covered by the reports.

jeffrey-kissel commented 4 years ago

Since we eventually want state information, I doce in to this corner of the US census bureau data, https://www.census.gov/content/census/en/data/datasets/time-series/demo/popest/2010s-state-total.html

And pulled this data set, which estimates the population of each state from 2010 to 2019, based on projections from the 2010 census (and presumably the previous decades census).

Population, Population Change, and Estimated Components of Population Change: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2019 (NST-EST2019-alldata)

http://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/datasets/2010-2019/national/totals/nst-est2019-alldata.csv?#

which https://github.com/jeffrey-kissel/blacklivesmatter/blob/master/prisons/data/uscensusrawdata/nst-est2019-alldata.csv