nes: American National Election Studies
In davidkane9/PPBDS.data: Data for Preceptor's Primer for Bayesian Data Science

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This dataset is from the American National Election Studies (ANES), a survey that aims to provide insights into voter behavior. It has been conducted since 1948 before and after each presidential election, and combines questions about voters' political attitudes with extensive biographical information. Current as of 07/29/2020.

nes

A tibble with 38,558 observations and 10 variables:

year: integer variable for year of study
state: character variable for the 2-letter abbreviation of the state of the interview of a respondent
gender: character variable with values "Male", "Female", and "Other"
income: ordered factor variable for respondents' income percentile group. Has 5 levels: 0-16th percentile, 17-33rd, 34-67th, 68-95th, 96-100th
age: ordered factor variable of respondents' age ranges, 75+ is accurate except for year 1954
education: ordered factor variable with a 7 tier delineation of educational achievement
race: character variable for respondants' race / ethnicity identification
ideology: integer variable for party identification from -3 to 3. Lower values correspond to Democrats, higher values correspond to Republicans
pres_appr: character variable of respondents' self-reported approval of the sitting president. Question was not asked before 1972
voted: character variable indicating whether the respondent voted in the national elections
region: factor variable indicating the region corresponding to the voter's survey state

Some of the questions aksed in the survey have changed slightly over time. The ANES codebook provides further information on this issue.

Table: Data summary


Name	nes
Number of rows	38558
Number of columns	11
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Column type frequency:
character	5
factor	4
numeric	2
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Group variables	None

Variable type: character

skim_variable	n_missing	complete_rate	min	max	empty	n_unique	whitespace
state	110	1.00	2	2	0	50	0
gender	141	1.00	4	6	0	3	0
race	287	0.99	5	15	0	6	0
pres_appr	9646	0.75	6	10	0	3	0
voted	4078	0.89	2	3	0	2	0

Variable type: factor

skim_variable	n_missing	complete_rate	ordered	n_unique	top_counts
income	2517	0.93	TRUE	5	34 : 11740, 68 : 9974, 0 -: 6300, 17 : 6213
age	450	0.99	TRUE	7	25 : 7669, 35 : 7342, 45 : 6545, 55 : 6021
education	397	0.99	TRUE	7	Hig: 9269, Som: 8540, Col: 5540, Som: 4688
region	0	1.00	FALSE	4	Sou: 13680, Mid: 10072, Wes: 7428, Nor: 7378

Variable type: numeric

skim_variable	n_missing	complete_rate	mean	sd	p0	p25	p50	p75	p100	hist
year	0	1.00	1989.40	20.50	1952	1972	1992	2012	2016	▃▃▃▃▇
ideology	619	0.98	-0.38	2.09	-3	-2	-1	2	3	▇▂▂▂▅