elec92: Public Opinion During the 1992 U.S. Presidential Election

In optiscale: Optimal Scaling

Description

This data set contains several variables from the Center for Political Studies 1992 National Election Study. Observations with missing values on any of the variables have been deleted.

Usage

data(elec92)

Format

A data frame with 1653 observations on the following 7 variables.

caseid

NES case identification number

bush

Respondents feeling thermometer rating of George H. W. Bush

ideol

Respondents ideological self-placement, seven-point scale ranging from 1=extremely liberal to 7=extremely conservative

econ4yr

Respondents judgment whether national economy has gotten better or worse over preceding four years, five-point scale ranging from 1=much better to 5=much worse

party

Respondents party identification, seven-point scale ranging from 0=strong Democrat to 6=strong Republican

choice

Difference in respondents feeling thermometer ratings of Bush and Clinton

clinton

Respondent”s feeling thermometer rating of Bill Clinton

Source

The full data set from which these observations and variables were extracted is available on the Study Page for the American National Election Studies 1992 Time Series Study, at https://electionstudies.org/data-center/1992-time-series-study/.

References

Jacoby, William G. (1999) “Levels of Measurement and Political Research: An Optimistic View.” American Journal of Political Science 43: 271-301.

Examples

library(optiscale)
data(elec92)
summary(lm(choice ~ party + ideol + econ4yr, data = elec92))

optiscale documentation built on Feb. 3, 2021, 9:06 a.m.