Punishment {vcd}R Documentation

Corporal Punishment Data

Description

Data from a study of the Gallup Institute in Denmark in 1979 about the attitude of a random sample of 783 persons towards corporal punishment of children.

Usage

data(Punishment)

Format

A data frame with 36 observations and 5 variables.

Freq
frequency.
attitude
factor indicating attitude: (no, moderate) punishment of children.
memory
factor indicating whether the person had memories of corporal punishment as a child (yes, no).
education
factor indicating highest level of education (elementary, secondary, high).
age
factor indicating age group in years (15-24, 25-39, 40-).

Source

E. B. Andersen (1991), The Statistical Analysis of Categorical Data, page 208.

References

E. B. Andersen (1991), The Statistical Analysis of Categorical Data. 2nd edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Examples

data(Punishment)
structable(~ ., data = Punishment)

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