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

BEPS

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

vote: Party choice: Conservative, Labour, or Liberal Democrat
age: in years
economic.cond.national: Assessment of current national economic conditions, 1 to 5.
economic.cond.household: Assessment of current household economic conditions, 1 to 5.
Blair: Assessment of the Labour leader, 1 to 5.
Hague: Assessment of the Conservative leader, 1 to 5.
Kennedy: Assessment of the leader of the Liberal Democrats, 1 to 5.
Europe: an 11-point scale that measures respondents' attitudes toward European integration. High scores represent ‘Eurosceptic’ sentiment.
political.knowledge: Knowledge of parties' positions on European integration, 0 to 3.
gender: female or male.

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

1	summary(BEPS)

               vote          age        economic.cond.national
 Conservative    :462   Min.   :24.00   Min.   :1.000         
 Labour          :720   1st Qu.:41.00   1st Qu.:3.000         
 Liberal Democrat:343   Median :53.00   Median :3.000         
                        Mean   :54.18   Mean   :3.246         
                        3rd Qu.:67.00   3rd Qu.:4.000         
                        Max.   :93.00   Max.   :5.000         
 economic.cond.household     Blair           Hague          Kennedy     
 Min.   :1.00            Min.   :1.000   Min.   :1.000   Min.   :1.000  
 1st Qu.:3.00            1st Qu.:2.000   1st Qu.:2.000   1st Qu.:2.000  
 Median :3.00            Median :4.000   Median :2.000   Median :3.000  
 Mean   :3.14            Mean   :3.334   Mean   :2.747   Mean   :3.135  
 3rd Qu.:4.00            3rd Qu.:4.000   3rd Qu.:4.000   3rd Qu.:4.000  
 Max.   :5.00            Max.   :5.000   Max.   :5.000   Max.   :5.000  
     Europe       political.knowledge    gender   
 Min.   : 1.000   Min.   :0.000       female:812  
 1st Qu.: 4.000   1st Qu.:0.000       male  :713  
 Median : 6.000   Median :2.000                   
 Mean   : 6.729   Mean   :1.542                   
 3rd Qu.:10.000   3rd Qu.:2.000                   
 Max.   :11.000   Max.   :3.000