A dataset containing state-by-year data on spending on kids in the United States, 1997-2016. The data was made available by and is attributable to Julia Isaacs, Eleanor Lauderback, and Erica Greenberg at the Urban Institute under the under the ODC Attribution License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1-0/).

tidykids

Format

A data frame with 70380 rows and 4 variables:

state

United States state (and the District of Columbia), a string

variable

Variable, see tidykids_data_dictionary for more information, a string

year

year, an integer

raw

the value of the variable; a numeric value

inf_adj

the value of the variable, adjusted for inflation, a numeric value

inf_adj_perchild

the value of the variable adjusted for inflation, per child; a numeric value