music: Data (ratings): Music (US General social survey 1993)
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Data (ratings): Music (US General social survey 1993)

Description

The dataset contains data on 18 items referring to the liking of musical styles (ratings on a 5-point Likert type response scale) and three subject covariates. The data is an excerpt from the US General Social Survey 1993. Missing values have been removed from the subject variables.

Usage

music

Format

A data frame with 1597 observations. The variables bigb through hvym are responses to items asking for liking/disliking of type of music: Do you like it very much (1), like it (2), have mixed feelings (3), dislike it (4), dislike it very much (5).

bigb: like or dislike bigband music
blug: like or dislike bluegrass music
coun: like or dislike country western music
blue: like or dislike blues or r and b music
musi: like or dislike broadway musicals
clas: like or dislike classical music
folk: like or dislike folk music
gosp: like or dislike gospel music
jazz: like or dislike jazz
lati: like or dislike latin music
mood: like or dislike easy listening music
newa: like or dislike new age music
oper: like or dislike opera
rap: like or dislike rap music
regg: like or dislike reggae music
conr: like or dislike contemporary rock music
oldi: like or dislike oldies rock music
hvym: like or dislike heavy metal music
age: age in years
educ: highest year of school completed
sex: 1 male, 2 female

Source

Davis, J. A., Smith, T. W., \& Marsden, P. V. (2016) General Social Survey, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2002 with Cultural, Information Security, and Freedom Modules [United States]. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]. doi: 10.3886/ICPSR35536.v2