HIVChange {QCA3}R Documentation

HIV prevalence in Sub-Saharan Africa

Description

Data set from Cronqvist and Berg-Schlosser(2006), examining the HIV prevalence in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Usage

data(HIVChange)

Format

A data frame with 12 observations on the following 7 variables.

LIT00
Dichotomized literacy rate of 2000. 1 if above 50%.
GENDEREQ
Dichotomized gender equality index. 1 is above 40 index point.
MORTALITY
Trichotomized cummulated HIV morality rate up to 1997, with thresholds of 2% and 4%.
AGRARGDP
Dichotomized variable of share of agarian production of GDP. 1 is above 25%.
HIVChange
The outcome. "1" if the prevalence rate increases. Otherwise it is "0". "C" is indicates contraditory configurations.
Country
Names of cases
NCase
Number of cases

Details

LIT00 measures socio-economic factors. GENDEREQ measures the situation of women. MORTALITY measures the awareness of HIV threat. AGRARGDP measures the impact of migration.

References

Cronqvist. L. and Berg-Schlosser, D. 2006. Determining The Conditions Of Hiv/Aids Prevalence In Sub-Saharan Africa: Employing New Tools Of Macro-Qualitative Analysis. In Innovative Comparative Methods For Policy Analysis: Beyond The Quantitative-Qualitative Divide. Benoit Rihoux and Heike Grimm (Eds).Springer.

Examples

cond <- c("LIT00", "GENDEREQ", "MORTALITY", "AGRARGDP")
## example in p161: not exactly the same solution. This one is correct too (tell me if you don't think so)
reduce(HIVChange,"HIVChange",cond,expl="positive",rem="incl",contr="negative",nlevels=c(2,2,3,2),pre="pass",NCase="NCase",Cases="Country")
reduce(HIVChange,"HIVChange",cond,expl="negative",rem="incl",contr="positive",nlevels=c(2,2,3,2),pre="pass",NCase="NCase",Cases="Country")

## example in p163
reduce(HIVChange,"HIVChange",cond,expl="positive",rem="incl",contr="negative",nlevels=c(2,2,3,2),pre="pass",NCase="NCase",Cases="Country")
reduce(HIVChange,"HIVChange",cond,expl="negative",rem="incl",contr="negative",nlevels=c(2,2,3,2),pre="pass",NCase="NCase",Cases="Country")
## C.A.R is positive, all other three are nagetive

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