2008_to_2012_age_and_sex
- Searched the US Census' FactFinder with Geographies: {'County': ['All Counties within United States', 'All Counties within United States and Puerto Rico']}
- Data from S0101: AGE AND SEX
- 2012 ACS 5-year estimates
- Downloaded 2014-05-04
2008_to_2012_race_and_ethnicity
- Searched the US Census' FactFinder with Geographies: {'County': ['All Counties within United States', 'All Counties within United States and Puerto Rico']}
- Data from B03002: HISPANIC OR LATINO ORIGIN BY RACE
- 2012 ACS 5-year estimates
- Downloaded 2014-05-04
2008_to_2012_social_characteristics
- Searched the US Census' FactFinder with Geographies: {'County': ['All Counties within United States', 'All Counties within United States and Puerto Rico']}
- Data from DP02: SELECTED SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS IN THE UNITED STATES
- 2012 ACS 5-year estimates
- Downloaded 2014-05-04
2010_to_2013_population
- County-level population estimates
- Data downloaded from http://www.census.gov/popest/data/counties/totals/2013/CO-EST2013-01.html, 2014-05-04
2012_income_and_poverty
- County-level estimates of US poverty and income for 2012
- Direct link: http://www.census.gov/did/www/saipe/downloads/estmod12/est12ALL.txt
- Guide to fields can be found http://www.census.gov/did/www/saipe/data/statecounty/data/2012.html
2013_area
- From http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/gazetteer2013.html; see link for column info
- Downloaded 2014-05-04
2014_health_indicators
- Available from http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/rankings/data, a program from Robert Wood Johnson
election2008
- 2008 county election data (2008 Presidential General Election, County Results, National Atlas of the United States, http://nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html?openChapters=chphist#chphist)
election2012
- 2012 US election results, from http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/nov/07/us-2012-election-county-results-download#data
fips
- FIPS codes from https://github.com/hadley/data-counties/blob/master/county-fips.csv (Hadley Wickham)
unemployment_statistics
- From http://www.bls.gov/lau/tables.htm
- laucntycur14.txt downloaded 2014-09-13, laucntycur13.txt downloaded 2014-09-22, others downloaded 2014-02