THIS README IS FOR THE DATA/PROCESSED_DATA/COVARIATES DIRECTORY.

THIS DIRECTORY CONTAINS THE PROCESSED SOCIO-ECONOMIC DATA FOR EACH CITY, WHICH WERE CREATED IN DATA/RAW_DATA/COVARIATES. THESE WILL BE USED TO GENERATE THE COUNT DATA OVER THE CENSUS TRACTS AND OVER THE GRIDS OF VARYING REOSLUTIONS IN THE DATA/PROCESSED_DATA/CRIME DIRECTORY.

THE MANIPULATED DATA FILES (COPIED OVER FROM THE RAW_DATA DIRECTORY AND CREATED WITHIN THIS DIRECTORY) ARE NOT CONTAINED WITHIN THIS ARCHIVED FOLDER BUT CAN BE CREATED THROUGH THE R SCRIPTS IN THE RELEVANT RAW_DATA DIRECTORY. WHILE WE DO NOT HAVE THE DATA FILES ARCHIVED, WE DISCUSS THE NAMING CONVENTIONS BELOW AS THEY ARE USED WITHIN THE R SCRIPTS FOR GENERATING THE COUNT DATA.

- *_CTPop_15_proj.rds: Output from DATA/RAW_DATA/COVARIATES/CovDataGen_final.R.
- *_CTInc_15_imp_proj.rds: imputed average income where all missing data is treated the same and interpolated using the average of neighbouring census tracts. Output from DATA/RAW_DATA/COVARIATES/CovDataGen_final.R.
- *_CTInc_15_0imp_proj.rds: imputed missing data, where some of the missing data linked to census tracts with an estimated total housgolds of 0. Output from DATA/RAW_DATA/COVARIATES/CovDataGen_Inc_final.R.

(For each city we also had data for age and sex, food stamps/SNAP and for tenure of properties (owned/rented), and so, while the code contains the ability to include these, we will not concentrate on these. These codes can make finding the relevant tables on the US Census Bureau API much easier.)
