BEPS: British Election Panel Study

Description Usage Format Source References Examples

Description

These data are drawn from the 1997-2001 British Election Panel Study (BEPS).

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 1525 observations on the following 10 variables.

Europe

An 11-point scale that measures respondents' attitudes toward European integration. High scores represent eurosceptic sentiment

Leader_Cons

Assessment of the Conservative leader Hague, 1 to 5

Leader_Labour

Assessment of the Labour leader Blair, 1 to 5

Leader_Liberals

Assessment of the Liberals leader Kennedy, 1 to 5

Vote

Party Choice with levels Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat

Age

Age in years

Gender

Gender with levels female and male

Political_Knowledge

Knowledge of parties' positions on European integration, 0 to 3

National_Economy

Assessment of current national economic conditions, 1 to 5

Household

Assessment of current household economic conditions, 1 to 5

Source

R package carData: BEPS

References

British Election Panel Study (BEPS)
J. Fox and R. Andersen (2006): Effect displays for multinomial and proportional-odds logit models. Sociological Methodology 36, 225–255

Examples

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## Not run: 
data(BEPS)

BEPS$Europe<-scale(BEPS$Europe)
BEPS$Age<-scale(BEPS$Age)
BEPS$Leader_Labour<-BEPS$Leader_Labour-BEPS$Leader_Cons
BEPS$Leader<-BEPS$Leader_Labour
BEPS$Leader_Liberals<-BEPS$Leader_Liberals-BEPS$Leader_Cons

star.nominal(Vote ~ Age + Household + National_Economy + Household + Leader + 
Europe + Political_Knowledge + Gender, data = BEPS, 
xij = list(Leader~Leader_Labour+Leader_Liberals), catstar = FALSE, symmetric = FALSE)

## End(Not run)

Example output

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$odds
                 (Intercept)       Age Household National_Economy    Europe
Conservative       1.0000000 1.0000000  1.000000         1.000000 1.0000000
Labour             0.2419771 0.7328699  1.190234         1.805298 0.4654061
Liberal Democrat   0.4713802 0.7961663  1.014292         1.231293 0.5041513
                 Political_Knowledge Gendermale
Conservative               1.0000000   1.000000
Labour                     0.5997630   1.137133
Liberal Democrat           0.8372857   1.147177

$coefficients
                 (Intercept)        Age  Household National_Economy     Europe
Conservative       0.0000000  0.0000000 0.00000000        0.0000000  0.0000000
Labour            -1.4189122 -0.3107871 0.17415017        0.5907257 -0.7648449
Liberal Democrat  -0.7520903 -0.2279472 0.01419037        0.2080650 -0.6848789
                 Political_Knowledge Gendermale
Conservative               0.0000000  0.0000000
Labour                    -0.5112207  0.1285105
Liberal Democrat          -0.1775899  0.1373044

$se
                 (Intercept)        Age  Household National_Economy     Europe
Conservative       0.0000000 0.00000000 0.00000000       0.00000000 0.00000000
Labour             0.3789227 0.07852958 0.08960295       0.09915314 0.08710990
Liberal Democrat   0.3881686 0.08420106 0.09512130       0.10290171 0.09190434
                 Political_Knowledge Gendermale
Conservative              0.00000000  0.0000000
Labour                    0.07479880  0.1579707
Liberal Democrat          0.08080234  0.1687827

$pvalues
                  (Intercept)          Age  Household National_Economy
Conservative              NaN          NaN        NaN              NaN
Labour           0.0001806843 0.0000757129 0.05194656     2.557961e-09
Liberal Democrat 0.0526799657 0.0067857918 0.88141016     4.317866e-02
                       Europe Political_Knowledge Gendermale
Conservative              NaN                 NaN        NaN
Labour           0.000000e+00        8.222756e-12  0.4159264
Liberal Democrat 9.192647e-14        2.796110e-02  0.4159325

$catspec
          [,1]
[1,] 0.7055805

$catspecse
           [,1]
[1,] 0.03926252

$p_rel
     Leader          Age  Household National_Economy Europe Political_Knowledge
[1,]      0 0.0003200035 0.07165663     1.804596e-09      0         1.44873e-12
     Gendermale
[1,]  0.6590674

$xlim
[1]  4.693775 25.635233

$ylim
[1]  4.495192 25.220014

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