japan: Voters' Preferences of Political Parties in Japan (1995)

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Voters' Preferences of Political Parties in Japan (1995)

Description

This dataset gives voters' preferences of political parties in Japan on the 0 (least preferred) - 100 (most preferred) scale. It is based on the 1995 survey data of 418 individual voters. The data also include the sex, education level, and age of the voters. The survey allowed voters to choose among four parties: Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), New Frontier Party (NFP), Sakigake (SKG), and Japanese Communist Party (JCP).

Format

A data frame containing the following 7 variables for 418 observations.

LDP	numeric	preference for Liberal Democratic Party	0 - 100
NFP	numeric	preference for New Frontier Party	0 - 100
SKG	numeric	preference for Sakigake	0 - 100
JCP	numeric	preference for Japanese Communist Party	0 - 100
gender	factor	gender of each voter	male or female
education	numeric	levels of education for each voter
age	numeric	age of each voter

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