mpincdf99 {pinktoe}R Documentation

EDM signing database for 1999 and party affiliation for MPs

Description

A dataframe. Each row represents an MP. The first entry in each row contains the party affiliation for that MP. Subsequent entries correspond to the factor SIGNED/NOT SIGNED indicating whether that MP did or did not sign the EDM described by that column.

Usage

data(mpincdf99)

Format

A dataframe containing 549 MPs (rows) and 1244 columns (one for party membership and the rest for EDMs).

Source

Nason, G.P. (2001) Early Day Motions: exploring backbench opinion during 1997-2000. Technical Report 01:11, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol.

Examples

data(mpincdf99)
## maybe str(mpincdf99) ; plot(mpincdf99) ...
#
# Let's look at the first 5 MPs and the first 4 EDMs.
#
mpincdf99[1:5,1:5]
#                  party   EDM1 EDM2   EDM3   EDM4
#Abbott/Diane        Lab SIGNED  NOT SIGNED    NOT
#Adams/Irene         Lab    NOT  NOT    NOT SIGNED
#Ainger/Nick         Lab    NOT  NOT    NOT    NOT
#Ainsworth/Peter     Con    NOT  NOT    NOT    NOT
#Alexander/Douglas   Lab    NOT  NOT    NOT    NOT
#
# So, Diane signed EDM1 and EDM3 and not EDM2 and EDM4 etc....

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