race_justice: Yahoo! News Race and Justice poll results.

In tessington/qsci381: Data used in QSCI 381, University of Washington

Description

Results from a Yahoo! News poll conducted by YouGov on May 29-39, 2020. In total 1060 U.S. adults were asked a series of questions regarding race and justice in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by a police officer. Results in this data set are percentages for the question, "Do you think Blacks and Whites receive equal treatment from the police?" For this particular question there were 1059 respondents.

Usage

race_justice

Format

A data frame with 4 rows and 5 variables.

race

Race of respondent.

yes

Number of respondents who answered "yes".

no

Number of respondents who answered "no".

not_sure

Number of respondents who answered "not sure".

unweighted_n

Sample size for each race.

Source

Yahoo! News Race and Justice - May 31, 2020

Examples

barplot(race_justice$yes/race_justice$unweighted_n,
     main = "Do police treat Black citizens and White citizens equally?",
     xlab = "Race",
     ylab = "Yes (percent)",
     names.arg = c("White","Black","Hispanic","Other"))

barplot(race_justice$no/race_justice$unweighted_n,
     main = "Do police treat Black citizens and White citizens equally?",
     xlab = "Race",
     ylab = "No (percent)",
     names.arg = c("White","Black","Hispanic","Other"))

tessington/qsci381 documentation built on Sept. 26, 2020, 12:40 p.m.