Calculate Proportions

Nationally, 55% of Hispanics identify as White and 35% identify as "Some Other Race". (You can run Line 2 in the code window to confirm this.) But there is substantial state-to-state variation, which we will now investigate. As a reminder, we will express proportions as percentages throughout this course.

pandas has been imported, the data frame states is loaded with population counts by race and Hispanic origin. A list, hispanic_races, has names of columns with Hispanics by race data, and is shown in the console.

Use the copy method to create a deep copy of only the hispanic_races columns in states
As you iterate the races in the hispanic_races list, calculate the percentage of Hispanics identifying as each race as 100 times the count of the current race divided by the total number of Hispanics.
Print the head of the resulting data frame.

Exercise

Calculate Proportions

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