ebola.survey: Survey on Ebola quarantine

In JECheadle/RSOC317L: Data Sets and Supplemental Functions from David Diez's 'OpenIntro' Textbook

Description

In New York City on October 23rd, 2014, a doctor who had recently been treating Ebola patients in Guinea went to the hospital with a slight fever and was subsequently diagnosed with Ebola. Soon thereafter, an NBC 4 New York/The Wall Street Journal/Marist Poll asked New Yorkers whether they favored a "mandatory 21-day quarantine for anyone who has come in contact with an Ebola patient". This poll included responses of 1,042 New York adults between October 26th and 28th, 2014.

Usage

data("ebola.survey")

Format

A data frame with 1042 observations on the following variable.

quarantine

Indicates whether the respondent is in favor or against the mandatory quarantine.

Source

Poll ID NY141026 on maristpoll.marist.edu.

Examples

data(ebola.survey)
table(ebola.survey)

JECheadle/RSOC317L documentation built on May 15, 2019, 4:02 a.m.