mexico: The 2012 Mexico Elections Panel Study
In list: Statistical Methods for the Item Count Technique and List Experiment

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The 2012 Mexico Elections Panel Study

Description

This dataset is a subset of the 2012 Mexico Elections Panel Study and contains a list experiment question. It reads as follows: I am going to read you a list of four activities that appear on this card and I want you to tell me how many of these activities you have done in recent weeks. Please don''t tell me which ones, just HOW MANY. The four activities are... (SHOW CARD AND READ) a. See television news that mentions a candidate b. Attend a campaign event c. Exchange your vote for a gift, favor, or access to a service d. Talk about politics with other people

Format

A data frame containing the following variables for 1004 observations.

y	numeric	the number of items that make respondents angry	0 - 4
mex.t	numeric	treatment status	0-1
mex.male	numeric	whether or not a respondent is male	0-1
mex.age	numeric	age of a respondent
mex.education	numeric	respondent's level of education	0-9
mex.y.all	numeric	the number of activities that respondent did	0 - 4
mex.vote	numeric	respondent's self-reported turnout	0-1
mex.age2	numeric	age of a respondent, squared
mex.interest	numeric	how interested respondent is in politics	1-4
mex.married	numeric	indicator for whether respondent is married	0-1
mex.pidpanw2	numeric	indicator for whether respondent identifies with PAN party	0-1
mex.pidprdw2	numeric	indicator for whether respondent identifies with PRD party	0-1
mex.pidpriw2	numeric	indicator for whether respondent identifies with PRI party	0-1
mex.votecard	numeric	respondent's enumerator-verified turnout	0-1
mex.urban	numeric	indicator for whether respondent lives in urban area	0-1
mex.cleanelections	numeric	indicator for whether respondent thinks elections were clean	0-1
mex.cleanelectionsmiss	numeric	indicator for whether cleanelections variable was missing	0-1
mex.metro	numeric	indicator for whether respondent lives in Mexico City metro area	0-1
mex.centralregion	numeric	indicator for whether respondent lives in Mexico's central region	0-1
mex.northregion	numeric	indicator for whether respondent lives in Mexico's north region	0-1
mex.wealth	numeric	scale for respondent's wealth, based on household asset indicators
mex.epnapprove	numeric	respondent's approval rating of Enrique Pena-Nieto	1-11
mex.havepropoganda	numeric	indicator for whether respondent has propaganda outside their home	0-1
mex.concurrent	numeric	indicator for whether respondent lives in state with concurrent elections	0-1
mex.loyal	numeric	indicator for whether respondent strongly identifies with the PAN, PRI, or PRD party	0-1
mex.direct	numeric	indicator for whether respondent directly reports an attempt to buy their vote	0-1