WilPat2: Wilson-Patterson Conservatism Scale

In Gifi: Multivariate Analysis with Optimal Scaling

Wilson-Patterson Conservatism Scale

Description

This dataset contains a modified version of the classical Wilson-Patterson conservatism scale. Here we use a subset of the data included in the MPsychoR package.

Usage

data("WilPat2")

Format

The first 15 items are conservative items, the remaining ones are liberal. Each item has the following response categories: 0 ... disapprove, 1 ... approve, 2 ... don't know. There are 493 persons in the sample. In addition there are the following covariates:

Country

Participant's country.

LibCons

Self-reported liberalism/conservatism.

LeftRight

Self-reported left/right identification.

Gender

Gender.

Age

Age.

Note

Thanks to Benedek Kurdi and Levente Littvay for providing this dataset.

Examples

data("WilPat2")
str(WilPat2)

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