Christian Mackenrodt

#30DayMapChallenge #BundesagenturfürArbeit

day 3 – Polygons: North-South gap bigger than East-West divide

To calculate a (simplified) unemployment rate, you need data for the unemployed and the employed. These are available at https://statistik.arbeitsagentur.de for more than 10,000 German communities. I calculated two figures: one for the northern and one for the southern polygon.

Did you expect that the gap between North and South is bigger than between East (7,7%) and West (5,8%)?

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Nov 3, 2024 at 9:02amWeb
Show threadwahlatlas.netNov 3, 2024
@chwoma would you mind elaborating which tools you used to calculate the aggregates as well as the equator itself?
Show threadKai-Christian BruhnNov 3, 2024
@wahlatlas @chwoma
cf. Day 2
https://mastodon.social/@chwoma/113414085431627355
Show threadChristian MackenrodtNov 3, 2024
@wahlatlas No, I don't mind at all. It's still my aim to share all the code & data for the maps. (I'm struggeling a bit with GitHub rightnow).
I did the plot in (base) #rstats and used the sf package. I got the polygons via the st_voronoi function.
Show threadKnud JahnkeNov 3, 2024

@chwoma

Now please factor in the stay-at-home housewifes of the "traditional" partriarchial household of the South vs. working women in the East. I think that could be a major factor.

Show threadJens Glad BalchenNov 3, 2024
@chwoma Seems logical considering the north has almost all of the east?
Show threadChristian MackenrodtNov 3, 2024

@selulven Yes, the East is largely part of "the North". But the gap between North and South is bigger than between East and West.

My point is: East and West are different in many ways. Concerning unemployment they are not so different anymore.

The relatively low unemployment in West Germany is mainly due to the Southern Länder.

Show threadMorten KjeldgaardNov 3, 2024
@chwoma But the Eastern part of Germany, where unemployment is high, is almost completely part of the northern polygon. So your numbers are deceptive.