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Data (ratings): Music (General social survey)

Description

The General Social Survey has been conducted by the National Opinion Research Center in 1993. The dataset focusses on 11 items with a 5-point Likert type response scale. The respondents were asked about their music preferences.

Usage

data(music)

Format

A data frame with 1500 observations on the following 11 variables. The variables are items with the question for liking bigband/ blugrass,.. very much, like it, have mixed feelings, dislike it and dislike it very much. Missing values are categorized as NA, so it is not a numeric data frame.

bigband
responses to bigband item
blugrass
responses to blugrass item
country
responses to country item
blues
responses to blues item
musicals
responses to musicals item
klassik
responses to klassik item
folk
responses to folk item
jazz
responses to jazz item
opern
responses to opern item
rap
responses to rap item
hvymetal
responses to hvymetal item

Details

The 11 variables are items to be anserwed on a 5-point Likert type scale with response categories: (1) like it very much, (2) like it, (3) have mixed feelings, (4) dislike it and (5) dislike it very much.

Source

Dataset: General Social Survey 1993 [United States]
CPANDA Identification Number: a00006
Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive
http://www.cpanda.org/cpanda/getDDI.xq?studyID=a00006#dataDscr

References

This is just an abstract for further information concerning the General Social Survey dataset have a look at the Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive.

Examples

data(music)
summary(music)

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