BEPS {EffectStars}

British Election Panel Study

Description

These data are drawn from the 1997-2001 British Election Panel Study (BEPS).

Usage

data(BEPS)

Format

A data frame with 1525 observations on the following 10 variables.

Europe

An 11-point scale that measures respondents' attitudes toward European integration. High scores represent eurosceptic sentiment

Leader_Cons

Assessment of the Conservative leader Hague, 1 to 5

Leader_Labour

Assessment of the Labour leader Blair, 1 to 5

Leader_Liberals

Assessment of the Liberals leader Kennedy, 1 to 5

Vote

Party Choice with levels Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat

Age

Age in years

Gender

Gender with levels female and male

Political_Knowledge

Knowledge of parties' positions on European integration, 0 to 3

National_Economy

Assessment of current national economic conditions, 1 to 5

Household

Assessment of current household economic conditions, 1 to 5

Source

R package carData: BEPS

References

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

Examples

## Not run: 
data(BEPS)

BEPS$Europe<-scale(BEPS$Europe)
BEPS$Age<-scale(BEPS$Age)
BEPS$Leader_Labour<-BEPS$Leader_Labour-BEPS$Leader_Cons
BEPS$Leader<-BEPS$Leader_Labour
BEPS$Leader_Liberals<-BEPS$Leader_Liberals-BEPS$Leader_Cons

star.nominal(Vote ~ Age + Household + National_Economy + Household + Leader + 
Europe + Political_Knowledge + Gender, data = BEPS, 
xij = list(Leader~Leader_Labour+Leader_Liberals), catstar = FALSE, symmetric = FALSE)

## End(Not run)