I have population data (“totpopE”) at the census tract level (“GEOID”), which are nested within Precincts (“Precinct”). Please see below my data structure.
I used the code to sum population data per precinct: inters <- inters %>% group_by(Precinct) %>% mutate(TotalPop = sum(totpopE) ) However, said code produced too large sums because each census tract (“GEOID”) has multiple observations/rows. Each census tract has the same value. Is there any way I can use one value for each census tract to estimate total populations at the precinct level? It would be appreciated if anyone can provide codes to sum population data per precinct. > tail(df, n=20)Simple feature collection with 20 features and 3 fields Geometry type: POINT Dimension: XY Bounding box: xmin: 989211 ymin: 193205 xmax: 997877 ymax: 222689 Projected CRS: NAD83 / New York Long Island (ftUS)# A tibble: 20 × 4# Groups: GEOID [5] Precinct GEOID totpopE geometry <fct> <chr> <dbl> <POINT [US_survey_foot]> 1 20 36061015700 10352 (989211 222689) 2 20 36061015700 10352 (989211 222689) 3 20 36061015700 10352 (989211 222689) 4 20 36061015700 10352 (989211 222689) 5 79 36047123700 9448 (996168 193934) 6 79 36047123700 9448 (996598 193205) 7 79 36047123700 9448 (996598 193205) 8 79 36047123700 9448 (996598 193205) 9 19 36061013400 11387 (996703 219599)10 19 36061013400 11387 (996475 220183)11 19 36061013800 12826 (996871 222201)12 19 36061013800 12826 (997576 221811)13 19 36061013800 12826 (997877 221608)14 19 36061013800 12826 (997877 221608)15 19 36061013800 12826 (996216 221621)16 13 36061004400 15945 (990562 205039)17 13 36061004400 15945 (989574 206434)18 13 36061004400 15945 (989574 206434)19 13 36061004400 15945 (989574 206434)20 9 36061004400 15945 (989699 205397) [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.