bollen1989a: Industrialization-Democracy Data

In MIIVsem: Model Implied Instrumental Variable (MIIV) Estimation of Structural Equation Models

Description

A dataset from Bollen (1989) containing measures of political democracy and industrialization for 75 developing countries in 1960 and 1965. The variables are as follows:

Usage

bollen1989a

Format

A data frame with 75 rows and 9 variables

Details

• y1. freedom of the press, 1960

• y2. freedom of political opposition, 1960

• y3. fairness of elections, 1960

• y4. effectiveness of elected legislature, 1960

• y5. freedom of the press, 1965

• y6. freedom of political opposition, 1965

• y7. fairness of elections, 1965

• y8. effectiveness of elected legislature, 1965

• x1. natural log of GNP per capita, 1960

• x2. natural log of energy consumption per capita, 1960

• x3. arcsin of square root of percentage of labor force in industry, 1960

References

Bollen, K. A. (1989). Structural equation models. New York: Wiley-Interscience.

Examples

## Not run: 
  model <- '
    Eta1 =~ y1 + y2  + y3  + y4  
    Eta2 =~ y5 + y6  + y7  + y8    
    Xi1  =~ x1 + x2 + x3 
    Eta1 ~ Xi1  
    Eta2 ~ Xi1 
    Eta2 ~ Eta1 
    y1   ~~ y5
    y2   ~~ y4
    y2   ~~ y6
    y3   ~~ y7
    y4   ~~ y8
    y6   ~~ y8 devtools::build_win()
  '

## End(Not run)

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