rescale_description: Rescale description Eurobarometer questions

In antaldaniel/surveyreader: Data cleaning and integration for survey files

Description

Rescale the standard Eurobarometer outlook variable(s) with categories "Describes very well", " Describes fairly well", "Describes fairly badly" and "Describes very badly". The generic question is "In general, does the [EU] conjure up for you a very positive, fairly positive, neutral, fairly negative or very negative image?" This is a wrapper function around the rescale_categories function.

Usage

rescale_description(column, from = c("Very well", "Fairly well",
  "Fairly badly", "Very badly"), to = c(2, 1, -1, -2),
  na_labels = "default", exact_from = TRUE, return_class = "numeric",
  underscore = TRUE)

Arguments

column	A column from a survey data frame where gender is recorded.
from	Defaults to "Describes very well", " Describes fairly well", "Describes fairly badly" and "Describes very badly".
to	Defaults to c(2,1,-1,-2). If return_class = "character" or return_class = "factor" is selected it returns the abbreviated category names c("very_positive", "fairly_positive", "fairly_negative", "very_negative").
na_labels	Defaults to c("default").
exact_from	Deafults to TRUE. If FALSE you can use the partial matching, but beware that in this case, "twenty" will be replaced by
return_class	Default is "numeric", alternatives "character" or "factor".
underscore	Defaults to TRUE in which case factor names or character strings contain underscore_between_words. This is a better approach for further programming, but you can choose FALSE for nicer printing results. See examples.

Examples

rescale_description (column =
c("Very well",
  "Fairly well",
  "Fairly badly",
  "Very badly",
  "DK", "NA"),
underscore = FALSE,
return_class = "character")

rescale_description (column =
c("Very well",
  "Fairly well",
  "Fairly badly",
  "Very badly",
  "DK", "NA"),
return_class = "numeric")

antaldaniel/surveyreader documentation built on May 16, 2019, 2:29 a.m.