brexit {ASSA}

Brexit Poll Tracker

Description

The data consist of 267 polls conducted before the June 23 2016 EU referendum, which took place in the UK.

Usage

brexit

Format

A dataframe with 272 observations on six variables. The object is of class list.

Source

Financial Times (FT) Brexit poll tracker.

References

de Carvalho, M. and Martos, G. (2020). Brexit: Tracking and disentangling the sentiment towards leaving the EU. International Journal of Forecasting, 36, 1128–1137.

Examples

## Leave--stay plot (de Carvalho and Martos, 2018; Fig. 1)
data(brexit)
attach(brexit)
par(pty = "s")
plot(leave[(leave > stay)], stay[(leave > stay)],
     xlim = c(22, 66), ylim = c(22, 66), pch = 16, col = "red",
     xlab = "Leave", ylab = "Stay")
points(leave[(stay > leave)], stay[(stay > leave)],
       pch = 16, col = "blue")
points(leave[(stay == leave)], stay[(stay == leave)],
       pch = 24)
abline(a = 0, b = 1, lwd = 3)