nes96 {faraway}R Documentation

US 1996 national election study

Description

10 variable subset of the 1996 American National Election Study. Missing values and "don't know" responses have been listwise deleted. Respondents expressing a voting preference other than Clinton or Dole have been removed.

Usage

data(nes96)

Format

A data frame with 944 observations on the following 10 variables.

popul
population of respondent's location in 1000s of people
TVnews
days in the past week spent watching news on TV
selfLR
Left-Right self-placement of respondent: an ordered factor with levels extremely liberal, extLib < liberal, Lib < slightly liberal, sliLib < moderate, Mod < slightly conservative, sliCon < conservative, Con < extremely conservative, extCon
ClinLR
Left-Right placement of Bill Clinton (same scale as selfLR): an ordered factor with levels extLib < Lib < sliLib < Mod < sliCon < Con < extCon
DoleLR
Left-Right placement of Bob Dole (same scale as selfLR): an ordered factor with levels extLib < Lib < sliLib < Mod < sliCon < Con < extCon
PID
Party identification: an ordered factor with levels strong Democrat, strDem < weak Democrat, weakDem < independent Democrat, indDem < independent independentindind < indepedent Republican, indRep < waek Republican, weakRep < strong Republican, strRep
age
Respondent's age in years
educ
Respondent's education: an ordered factor with levels 8 years or less, MS < high school dropout, HSdrop < high school diploma or GED, HS < some College, Coll < Community or junior College degree, CCdeg < BA degree, BAdeg < postgraduate degree, MAdeg
income
Respondent's family income: an ordered factor with levels $3Kminus < $3K-$5K < $5K-$7K < $7K-$9K < $9K-$10K < $10K-$11K < $11K-$12K < $12K-$13K < $13K-$14K < $14K-$15K < $15K-$17K < $17K-$20K < $20K-$22K < $22K-$25K < $25K-$30K < $30K-$35K < $35K-$40K < $40K-$45K < $45K-$50K < $50K-$60K < $60K-$75K < $75K-$90K < $90K-$105K < $105Kplus
vote
Expected vote in 1996 presidential election: a factor with levels Clinton and Dole

Source

Sapiro, Virginia, Steven J. Rosenstone, Donald R. Kinder, Warren E. Miller, and the National Election Studies. AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDIES, 1992-1997: COMBINED FILE [Computer file]. 2nd ICPSR version. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Center for Political Studies [producer], 1999. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999.

References

Found at http://www.stat.washington.edu/quinn


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