election: Results of french departmental elections in 2015

electionR Documentation

Results of french departmental elections in 2015

Description

The data is used by Nguyen et. al (2020) and originally disseminated by the French ministry (Ministère de l'Intérieur et des Outre-Mer). Information about the population characteristics comes from the french national statistics institute (INSEE).

Usage

election

Format

An object of class data.frame with 95 rows and 13 columns.

Details

  • left, right, extreme_right: Vote shares during the election grouped into three blocks

  • Age_1839, Age_4064, Age_65plus: Share of the population falling into one of three age categories

  • Educ_BeforeHighschool, Educ_Highschool, Educ_Higher: Share of the population having completed a certain level of education.

  • asset_owner_rate: The proportion of people who own assets

  • income_taxpayer_rate: The proportion of people who pay income tax

  • forgeigner_rate: The proportion of foreigners

Author(s)

Lukas Dargel, Christine Thomas-Agnan

Source

  • https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/elections-departementales-2015-resultats-par-bureaux-de-vote

  • https://www.insee.fr/fr/accueil

References

Nguyen THA, Laurent T, Thomas-Agnan C, Ruiz-Gazen A. Analyzing the impacts of socio-economic factors on French departmental elections with CoDa methods. J Appl Stat. 2020 Dec 9;49(5):1235-1251. doi: 10.1080/02664763.2020.1858274. PMID: 35707505; PMCID: PMC9041641.


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