cces: Data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study
In davidkane9/PPBDS.data: Data for Preceptor's Primer for Bayesian Data Science

Description Usage Format Details Author(s) Source

Data for the approval ratings of voters to various government positions combined with the demographic background of the voter. See Kuriwaki (2018) for background and details. The raw code that was used to produce the data is accesible at Kuriwaki's Github.

cces

A tibble with 452,755 observations and 16 variables:

year: integer variable for year of survey
state: character variable for state of residence for observation
gender: charcater variable of "Female" and "Male"
age: integer variable for age in years
education: factor variable for level of education - takes values of "No HS", "High School Graduate", "Some College", "2-Year", "4-Year", and "Post-Grad"
race: character variable for racial identity
marstat: character variable for marriage status
ideology: factor variable for self-reported ideology - takes values of "Very Liberal", "Liberal", "Moderate", "Conservative", "Very Conservative", and "Not Sure"
news: character variable for level news/current events interest
econ: character variable for retrospective report on the past year's economy
approval_ch: character variable of approval of president - takes values of "Strongly Approve", "Approve / Somewhat Approve", "Disapprove / Somewhat Disapprove", "Never Heard / Not Sure", "Neither Approve Nor Disapprove"
approval: numeric variable of approval for the current president on a 1-5 scale with higher numbers indicating greater approval

Table: Data summary


Name	cces
Number of rows	452755
Number of columns	12
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Column type frequency:
character	7
factor	2
numeric	3
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Group variables	None

Variable type: character

skim_variable	n_missing	complete_rate	min	max	empty	n_unique	whitespace
state	0	1.00	4	20	0	51	0
gender	0	1.00	4	6	0	2	0
race	0	1.00	5	15	0	8	0
marstat	1555	1.00	7	22	0	6	0
news	37007	0.92	10	17	0	5	0
econ	850	1.00	8	31	0	6	0
approval_ch	735	1.00	16	32	0	6	0

Variable type: factor

skim_variable	n_missing	complete_rate	ordered	n_unique	top_counts
ideology	1774	1	FALSE	6	Mod: 141633, Con: 105268, Lib: 79591, Ver: 52243
education	67	1	FALSE	6	Hig: 125323, Som: 112290, 4-Y: 103011, Pos: 54519

Variable type: numeric

skim_variable	n_missing	complete_rate	mean	sd	p0	p25	p50	p75	p100	hist
year	0	1	2012.68	3.72	2006	2010	2013	2016	2018	▅▃▅▃▇
age	0	1	49.61	16.45	18	36	51	62	109	▆▇▇▂▁
approval	735	1	2.68	1.67	1	1	2	4	5	▇▂▁▅▃