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.
Questo esercizio fa parte del corso
Data Manipulation with dplyr
Istruzioni dell'esercizio
- Select the columns
state,county,population,men, andwomen. - Add a new variable called
proportion_womenwith the fraction of the county's population made up of women.
Esercizio pratico interattivo
Prova a risolvere questo esercizio completando il codice di esempio.
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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