brexit: Brexit Poll Tracker

In DATAstudio: The Research Data Warehouse of Miguel de Carvalho

Brexit Poll Tracker

Description

The data consist of 267 polls conducted before the June 23 2016 EU referendum, which took place in the UK.

Usage

brexit

Format

A dataframe with 272 observations on six variables.

• leave, stay, undecided: percentage in favor of each option.

• date: date on which the poll was conducted.

• pollster: institution conducting the poll.

• size: number of polled subjects.

Source

Financial Times (FT) Brexit poll tracker.

References

de Carvalho, M. and Martos, G. (2020). Brexit: Tracking and disentangling the sentiment towards leaving the EU. International Journal of Forecasting, 36, 1128-1137.

Examples

## Leave-stay plot (de Carvalho and Martos, 2018; Fig. 1)
data(brexit)
attach(brexit)
oldpar <- par(pty = "s")
plot(leave[(leave > stay)], stay[(leave > stay)],
     xlim = c(22, 66), ylim = c(22, 66), pch = 16, col = "red",
     xlab = "Leave", ylab = "Stay")
points(leave[(stay > leave)], stay[(stay > leave)],
       pch = 16, col = "blue")
points(leave[(stay == leave)], stay[(stay == leave)],
       pch = 24)
abline(a = 0, b = 1, lwd = 3)
par(oldpar)

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