ex0127: Environmental Voting of Democrats and Republicans in the U.S....

In Sleuth3: Data Sets from Ramsey and Schafer's "Statistical Sleuth (3rd Ed)"

Environmental Voting of Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Senate

Description

The data are the number of pro- and anti-environmental votes, according to the League of Conservation Voters, for each member of the U.S. Senate in 2005, 2006, or 2007.

Usage

ex0127

Format

A data frame with 112 observations on the following 10 variables.

State

the state that the member represented

Senator

name of the senator

Party

a factor representing political party, with levels "R" for Republican, "D" for Democratic, and "I" for Independent

Pro2005

the number of pro-environmental votes in 2005

Anti2005

the number of anti-environmental votes in 2005

Pro2006

the number of pro-environmental votes in 2006

Anti2006

the number of anti-environmental votes in 2006

Pro2007

the number of pro-environmental votes in 2007

Anti2007

the number of anti-environmental votes in 2007

PctPro

the total percentage of a representative's votes between 2005 and 2007 that were deemd to be pro-environmental

Source

Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2013). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd ed), Cengage Learning.

See Also

ex0126

Examples

str(ex0127)

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