demsup_data {DCPO}R Documentation

Support for Democracy in 51 Survey Datasets

Description

A dataset containing the prices and other attributes of almost 54,000 diamonds.

Usage

demsup_data

Format

A list of 15 elements

K

an integer, the total number of countries in the data

T

an integer, the total number of years in the data

Q

an integer, the total number of distinct survey questions in the data

R

an integer, the maximum number of response cutpoints in any survey question in the data

N

an integer, the number of KTQR observations

kk

a numeric vector of length N, the country of each observation

tt

a numeric vector of length N, the year of each observation

qq

a numeric vector of length N, the question of each observation

rr

a numeric vector of length N, the response cutpoint of each observation

y_r

a numeric vector of length N, the number of respondents who provided a response above the relevant cutpoint for each observation

n_r

a numeric vector of length N, the total number of respondents for each observation

fixed_cutp

a QxR matrix, a truth table indicating the question-cutpoint to be fixed at difficulty .5

use_delta

a QxK tibble, a truth table indicating whether item difficulty should be estimated to vary by question-country to account for potential item-response bias

data

an Nx14 tibble, the aggregate survey response dataset in its original format

data_args

a list of length 3, indicating the arguments passed to DCPOtools::format_dcpo to generate demsup_data from demsup_data$data

Details

Data on aggregate support for democracy reported in 51 survey datasets in 998 country-years, formatted for use with the functions of the DCPO package

Source

demsup_data replicates the data employed in Claassen, Christopher. 2019. "Estimating Smooth Country-Year Panels of Public Opinion." Political Analysis 27(1):1-20. See https://github.com/fsolt/DCPOtools.


[Package DCPO version 0.5.3 Index]