R/asap.data.list-data.R

In BaM: Functions and Datasets for "Bayesian Methods: A Social and Behavioral Sciences Approach"

#' asap.data.list
#'
#' @description The American State Administrator's Project (ASAP) survey asks administrators about the influence of a variety of external political actors including "clientele groups" in their agencies., see page 395.
#'
#' The variables included in the dataset are:
#' \itemize{
#' \item\code{contracting} scale from 0 : 6 where higher indicates more private contracting within the respondent's agency. 
#' \item\code{gov.incluence} respondents' assessment of the governor's influence on contracting in their agency.
#' \item\code{leg.influence} respondents' assessment of the legislatures' influence on contracting in their agency, ranging from 0 : 21.
#' \item\code{elect.board} dichotomous variable coded 1 if appointed by a board, a commission or elected, and 0 otherwise.
#' \item\code{years.tenure} number of years that the respondent has worked at their current agency.
#' \item\code{education} ordinal variable for level of education possessed by the respondent.
#' \item\code{partisan.ID} a 5-point ordinal variable (1-5) for the respondent's partisanship (strong Democrat to strong Republican).
#' \item\code{category} categories of agency type.
#' \item\code{med.time} whether the respondent spent more or less than the sample median with representatives of interest groups.
#' \item\code{medt.contr} interaction variable betweenmed.time and contracting.
#' \item\code{gov.ideology} state government ideology from Berry et al. (1998) from 0 to 100.
#' \item\code{lobbyists} total state lobbying registrants in 2000-01 from Gray and Lowery (1996, 2001).
#' \item\code{nonprofits} provides the total number of nonprofit groups in the respondents' state in the year 2008, divided by 10,000.
#'}  
#' 
#' @usage data(asap.data.list)
#' @name asap.data.list
#' @docType data
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