affirm: The 1991 National Race and Politics Survey

In list: Statistical Methods for the Item Count Technique and List Experiment

The 1991 National Race and Politics Survey

Description

This dataset is a subset of the 1991 National Race and Politics Survey and contains the item count technique or the list experiment. The main question reads as follows: ⁠ Now I'm going to read you four things that sometimes make people angry or upset. After I read all (three/four), just tell me HOW MANY of them upset you. (I don't want to know which ones, just how many.) (1) "the federal government increasing the tax on gasoline;" (2) "professional athletes getting million-dollar-plus salaries;" (3) "large corporations polluting the environment;" (4) "black leaders asking the government for affirmative action."⁠

Format

A data frame containing the following 6 variables for 1171 observations.

y	numeric	the number of items that make respondents angry	0 - 4
south	numeric	whether or not a respondents live in a southern state	0 - 1
male	numeric	whether or not a respondent is male	0 - 1
college	numeric	whether or not a respondent attended some college	0 - 1
age	numeric	age of a respondent divided by 10
treat	numeric	treatment status	0 - 1

Details

where the last item is presented only with the treatment group and the control list only contains the first three items.

Source

The full data set is available at SDA (Survey Documentation and Analysis; https://sda.berkeley.edu/D3/Natlrace/Doc/nrac.htm)

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