You’ve asked to undertake a study of the determinants of property crimes in the US for presentation at an upcoming meeting of business executives and community leaders. Your task is to provide evidence, for or against, common perceptions about property crime. Are crime rates higher in urban than rural areas? Does unemployment or education level contribute to property crime rates? How about public assistance? What other factors relate to property crimes? The file names PCRIMES may help answer some of these questions. Use the data to prepare a report on the characteristics of and determinants of property crimes in the Unites States.

DEFINITIONS:

CRIMES: property crime rate per hundred thousand inhabitants (property crimes include burglary, larceny, theft, and motor vehicle theft); calculated as # of property crimes committed divided by total population / 100,000

PINCOME: Per capita income for each state

DROPOUT: High school dropout rate (%, 1987)

PRECIP: Average precipitation in inches in the major city in each state over 1951-80

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