nes96: nes96 Dataset

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Description

10 variable subset of the 1996 American National Election Study. Missing values and "don't know" responses have been listwise deleted. Respondents expressing a voting preference other than Clinton or Dole have been removed.

Usage

data(nes96)

Format

nes96 is a tbl data frame with 944 observations on 10 variables.

Details

The 10 variables of the nes96 tbl data frame are the following ones:

• popul population of respondent's location in 1000s of people (numeric).

• TVnews ays in the past week spent watching news on TV (numeric);

• selfLR Left-Right self-placement of respondent: an ordered factor with levels extremely liberal, extLib < liberal, Lib < slightly liberal, sliLib < moderate, Mod < slightly conservative, sliCon < conservative, Con < extremely conservative, extCon (factor).

• ClinLR Left-Right placement of Bill Clinton (same scale as selfLR): an ordered factor with levels extLib < Lib < sliLib < Mod < sliCon < Con < extCon (factor).

• DoleLR Left-Right placement of Bob Dole (same scale as selfLR): an ordered factor with levels extLib < Lib < sliLib < Mod < sliCon < Con < extCon (factor).

• PID Party identification: an ordered factor with levels strong Democrat, strDem < weak Democrat, weakDem < independent Democrat, indDem < independent independentindind < indepedent Republican, indRep < waek Republican, weakRep < strong Republican, strRep (factor).

• age Respondent's age in years (numeric).

• educ Respondent's education: an ordered factor with levels 8 years or less, MS < high school dropout, HSdrop < high school diploma or GED, HS < some College, Coll < Community or junior College degree, CCdeg < BA degree, BAdeg < postgraduate degree, MAdeg (factor).

• income Respondent's family income: an ordered factor with levels $3Kminus < $3K-$5K < $5K-$7K < $7K-$9K < $9K-$10K < $10K-$11K < $11K-$12K < $12K-$13K < $13K-$14K < $14K-$15K < $15K-$17K < $17K-$20K < $20K-$22K < $22K-$25K < $25K-$30K < $30K-$35K < $35K-$40K < $40K-$45K < $45K-$50K < $50K-$60K < $60K-$75K < $75K-$90K < $90K-$105K < $105Kplus (factor).

• vote Expected vote in 1996 presidential election: a factor with levels Clinton and Dole (factor).

Source

Sapiro, Virginia, Steven J. Rosenstone, Donald R. Kinder, Warren E. Miller, and the National Election Studies. AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDIES, 1992-1997: COMBINED FILE [Computer file]. 2nd ICPSR version. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Center for Political Studies [producer], 1999. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999

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