R/gss.R

In infer: Tidy Statistical Inference

#' Subset of data from the General Social Survey (GSS).
#'
#' The General Social Survey is a high-quality survey which gathers data on
#' American society and opinions, conducted since 1972. This data set is a
#' sample of 500 entries from the GSS, spanning years 1973-2018,
#' including demographic markers and some
#' economic variables. Note that this data is included for demonstration only,
#' and should not be assumed to provide accurate estimates relating to the GSS.
#' However, due to the high quality of the GSS, the unweighted data will
#' approximate the weighted data in some analyses.
#' @format A tibble with 500 rows and 11 variables:
#' \describe{
#'   \item{year}{year respondent was surveyed}
#'   \item{age}{age at time of survey, truncated at 89}
#'   \item{sex}{respondent's sex (self-identified)}
#'   \item{college}{whether on not respondent has a college degree, including
#'   junior/community college}
#'   \item{partyid}{political party affiliation}
#'   \item{hompop}{number of persons in household}
#'   \item{hours}{number of hours worked in week before survey, truncated at 89}
#'   \item{income}{total family income}
#'   \item{class}{subjective socioeconomic class identification}
#'   \item{finrela}{opinion of family income}
#'   \item{weight}{survey weight}
#' }
#' @source \url{https://gss.norc.org}
"gss"