multi: The 1991 National Race and Politics Survey

In SensitiveQuestions/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 a list experiment with two sensitive items. The main questions read 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) "a black family moving next door to you."⁠

Format

A data frame containing the following 6 variables for 1795 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 - 2

Details

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

The second sensitive item replaces item (4) with ⁠ (4) "black leaders asking the government for affirmative action." ⁠

Treatment status one (treat == 1) is the "black family" item and status two is the "affirmative action" item.

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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