North Carolina 118th Congressional District Estimated Prison Gerrymandering Impact

## RDH Date Retrieval
04/03/23

## Sources
Congressional District BAF from Redistricting Data Hub [website](https://redistrictingdatahub.org/dataset/118th-congressional-districts-nov-2022-election-active-jan-2023-jan-2025/). and Block-Level 2020 Counterfactual Prisoner Adjusted Redistricting Data from Rory Kramer, PhD., and Brianna Remster, PhD., and Denise Wilson via Redistricting Data Hub [website](https://redistrictingdatahub.org/dataset/north-carolina-blocklevel-2020-counterfactual-prisoner-adjusted-redistricting-data-with-aggregations-to-state-legislative-districts/).

## Fields:
Field Name    Description                   
CONG118       Unique ID for each precinct   
total         Unadjusted total population   
white         Unadjusted white population   
black         Unadjusted black population   
other         Unadjusted other population   
adjtotal      Adjusted total population     
adjwhite      Adjusted white population     
adjblack      Adjusted black population     
adjother      Adjusted other population     
adjtotal_diff Difference in total population
adjwhite_diff Difference in white population
adjblack_diff Difference in black population
adjother_diff Difference in other population

## Processing Steps
Load in the BAF, join North Carolina counterfactual data to blocks, aggregate to 118th congressional districts.

Visit the RDH GitHub and the processing script for this code [here](https://github.com/nonpartisan-redistricting-datahub/Processing-Requests)

Please direct questions related to processing this dataset to info@redistrictingdatahub.org.