Team members:
- Kotekoro Traore – [email protected]
- Neha Rajeev – [email protected]
- Sera Ahmed – [email protected]
- Trang Le – [email protected]
Project Proposal:
Unemployment and Crime rate in the US
The project focuses on finding the relation between unemployment and the crime rate for metro cities (NY and Chicago) in the US. The goal is to find if a change in employment rate brings any change in the crime rate and if we could leverage this data to bring a positive change in the community and bring down the crime rate.
KPI’s
1. One of the objectives is to find a correlation between unemployment and crime rate:
- Do states with highest unemployment rate also have a high crime rate?
2. Since Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) is an emerging trend in the Future of Work, it’s helpful to see the progress of D&I based on the unemployment rate:
- Is there any improvement in prospects for black and Hispanic workers, female workers? How are their unemployment rates in comparison to those of white workers and males?
- Which state and which years see the highest gap?
3. Metro cities have a lot in common. We want to know if that also holds true when it comes to comparing other factors such as unemployment and crime:
- Do both cities have the same top 5 crimes?
- Do they have a similar percentage of unemployment rates by race, age and gender?
- Do they have the same trend/ seasonality in unemployment?
Data Sources:
- Unemployment: https://www.bls.gov/lau/ex14tables.htm
- Crime Chicago: https://data.cityofchicago.org/Public-Safety/Crimes-2001-to-Present/ijzp-q8t2
- Crime NY: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Public-Safety/NYPD-Complaint-Data-Historic/qgea-i56i
- Crime by state: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s