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Overview

What is the relationship between gun ownership and gun violence around the world? Do countries whose populations own more guns also have more gun-related deaths?

This dataset contains gun ownership and mortality statistics by for 75 countries. Since it may be useful to compare countries only to other "similar" countries, it also includes a Human Development Index that combines data on life expectancy, education, and income into a single metric that is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development (low, medium, high, and very high).

Variables

• country: Name of the country.
• mortality_rate: The number of gun-related deaths per 100,000 people.
• ownership_rate: The number of guns per 100 people.
• hdi: The country's numeric Human Development Index.
• hdi_category: The country's Human Development Index categorized into one of "low", "medium", "high", and "very high".

Data Source

Tewksbury Labs, Wikipedia list of countries by firearm-related death rate, Wikipedia number of guns per capita by country, Wikipedia list of countries by Human Development Index.

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To access the data in R, type

source("http://www.openintro.org/books/statdata/gun_violence.R")

To access the data in SAS, type

filename gun_violence url 'http://www.openintro.org/books/statdata/gun_violence.csv'