Calculating the percentage of women in a county
The dataset includes columns for the total number (not percentage) of men and women in each county. You could use this, along with the population
variable, to compute the fraction of men (or women) within each county.
In this exercise, you'll select the relevant columns yourself.
This exercise is part of the course
Data Manipulation with dplyr
Exercise instructions
- Select the columns
state
,county
,population
,men
, andwomen
. - Add a new variable called
proportion_women
with the fraction of the county's population made up of women.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
counties_selected <- counties %>%
# Select the columns state, county, population, men, and women
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counties_selected %>%
# Calculate proportion_women as the fraction of the population made up of women
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