Aggregate and Calculate Proportions
In this exercise we will explore Hispanic racial identity. Hispanics self-identify as a variety of races. We will use the sum()
method to help calculate national percentages of Hispanics identifying as each race.
Census workers are often promulgating information to the public, who are used to seeing proportions as percentages. For this reason, we will use percentages in this exercise and throughout this course.
pandas
has been imported as pd
. State-level counts from table "P5 - Hispanic or Latino Origin by Race" have been loaded into the DataFrame states
.
This exercise is part of the course
Analyzing US Census Data in Python
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# What percentage of Hispanics identify as White?
print(100 * states[____].sum() / states[____].sum())