THIS README IS FOR THE DATA/PROCESSED_DATA/SHAPEFILES/CENSUS_TRACTS DIRECTORY.

THIS DIRECTORY CONTAINS THE CENSUS TRACT SHAPEFILES FOR THE CITIES OF INTEREST AS WELL AS FOR THE COUNTIES AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD SET-UP OF THE CENSUS TRACTS AS PRODUCED IN DATA/RAW_DATA/SHAPEFILES/CENSUS_TRACTS.

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

- *CityCT.rda: census tracts for city, *, using a combination of the state census tracts and the city boundary shapefiles. Although at times the intersection between these is not clear cut and choices have to be made about which census tracts are included.
- *CountyCT.rda: census tracts for the counties that contain the city, *, of interest, for example Los Angeles County contains Los Angeles city.
- *CityNB.rda: this contains the neighbourhood structure of the census tracts within the city of interest, *, for the use of interpolation of socio-economic variables, where we only use data from the counties that contain each city, or the city itself if the missing data lies surrounded by other census tracts from the city. These also contain the relevant census tracts as \texttt{sp} objects.
- *CountyNB.rda: this contains the neighbourhood structure of the census tracts within the county that contain the city of interest, *, for the use of interpolation of socio-economic variables, where we only use data from the counties that contain each city. These also contain the relevant census tracts as \texttt{sp} objects.