How Female Local Officials Shine a Light on Street Safety: A Look into the Largest U.S. Cities

This dataset supports the findings in "How Female Local Officials Shine a Light on Street Safety: A Look into the Largest U.S. Cities." The dependent variable data of city councils' prioritization of street safety consisted of original data collection from 100 cities' 2022 budgetary documents. The independent variable of city council demographics was sourced from the Reflective Democracy Campaign, which lists the race and gender of elected leaders from the 100 largest U.S. cities in 2020 (https://wholeads.us/research/americas-cities-data/).