US County Economic Connectednesss Data from Opportunity Insights

Data from Opportunity Insights about economic connectedness across US counties. Connectedness is defined as two times the share of high-SES friends among low-SES individuals, averaged over all low-SES individuals in the county.

connectedness

Format

A tibble with 3,089 observations and 3 variables:

location

character variable for county and state name

population

numeric variable for county population in 2018

connectedness

numeric variable measuring economic connectedness

Source

https://data.humdata.org/dataset/social-capital-atlas

Author

David Kane