WVS: World Values Surveys
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Data from the World Values Surveys 1995-1997 for Australia, Norway, Sweden, and the United States.

WVS

A data frame with 5381 observations on the following 6 variables.

poverty: “Do you think that what the government is doing for people in poverty in this country is about the right amount, too much, or too little?” (ordered): Too Little, About Right, Too Much

religion: Member of a religion: no or yes.
degree: Held a university degree: no or yes.
country: Australia, Norway, Sweden, or USA.
age: in years.
gender: male or female.

J. Fox and R. Andersen (2006) Effect displays for multinomial and proportional-odds logit models. Sociological Methodology 36, 225–255.

1	summary(WVS)

        poverty     religion   degree          country          age       
 Too Little :2708   no : 786   no :4238   Australia:1874   Min.   :18.00  
 About Right:1862   yes:4595   yes:1143   Norway   :1127   1st Qu.:31.00  
 Too Much   : 811                         Sweden   :1003   Median :43.00  
                                          USA      :1377   Mean   :45.04  
                                                           3rd Qu.:58.00  
                                                           Max.   :92.00  
    gender    
 female:2725  
 male  :2656