R/social.R

In kosukeimai/qss-data: Data and Code for "Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction"

#' Social Pressure Experiment Data
#'
#' Dataset used to study the effect of social pressure on voter turnout.
#'
#' @format A data frame with 305866 rows and 6 variables:
#' \describe{
#'  \item{ sex }{ character: sex of the voter (female or male) }
#'  \item{ yearofbirth }{ integer: year of birth of the voter }
#'  \item{ primary2004 }{ integer: whether the voter voted in the 2004 primary election (1=voted, 0=abstained) }
#'  \item{ messages }{ character: GOTV messages the voter received (Civic Duty, Control, Neighbors, Hawthorne) }
#'  \item{ primary2006 }{ integer: whether the voter turned out in the 2006 primary election (1=voted, 0=abstained) }
#'  \item{ hhsize }{ integer: household size of the voter }
#' }
#'
#'
#' @details
#' See \emph{QSS} Table 2.4.
#'
#'
#' @references
#' \itemize{
#' \item{ Imai, Kosuke. 2017. \emph{Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction}.
#' Princeton University Press. \href{http://press.princeton.edu/titles/11025.html}{URL}. }
#' \item {Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green, and Christopher W. Larimer (2008) “Social pressure and
#' voter turnout: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment.” \emph{American Political Science Review},
#' vol. 102, no. 1, pp. 33–48. doi: 10.1017/S000305540808009X }
#'}
#'
"social"