Creating a scatterplot of child poverty based on ACS data

This quadrant plot shows that most counties are in the bottom left and the upper right quadrants, indicating that there is a positive relationship between child poverty rate and young adult's low level of education. Counties in the bottom left quadrant are those in which child poverty rate and young adults having less than high school are below average, whereas countries in the top right quadrant are those above average. Small number of counties are in the upper left quadrant and the lower right quadrant in which the relationship between child poverty rate and young adult education are not as expected. Counties in the upper left quadrant have percentage of young adults having less than high school higher than average, despite having child poverty rate lower than average. Counties in the lower right quadrant, on the other hand, have child poverty rate higher than average, yet still have percentage of young adult with education less than high school lower than average.

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