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Population estimates of American Jews

Source: R/sarna.R
sarna.Rd

This dataset contains estimates of the population of American Jews.

Usage

sarna

Format

A data frame with 92 observations of 3 variables.

Variables

  • year: date of estimate.

  • estimate: the type of estimate. population_low and population_high are the lower and upper bounds on the population of American Jews; percentage_high and percentage_low are the lower and upper bounds on the percentage of Jews among the United States population.

  • value: the value of the estimate.

References

This data is taken from the appendix in Jonathan D. Sarna, American Judaism: A History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), 375-376.

Examples

head(sarna)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 3
#>    year estimate       value
#>   <int> <fct>          <dbl>
#> 1  1660 population_low    50
#> 2  1700 population_low   200
#> 3  1776 population_low  1000
#> 4  1790 population_low  1300
#> 5  1800 population_low  2500
#> 6  1820 population_low  2650