plebiscite {EffectStars}

Chilean Plebiscite

Description

The data origin from a survey refering to the plebiscite in Chile 1988. The chilean people had to decide, wether Augusto Pinochet would remain president for another ten years (voting yes) or if there would be presidential elections in 1989 (voting no).

Usage

data(plebiscite)

Format

A data frame with 2431 observations on the following 7 variables.

Gender

Gender with levels female and male

Education

Educational level with levels low and high

SantiagoCity

Respondent from Santiago City with levels no and yes

Income

Monthly Income in Pesos

Population

Population size of respondent's community

Age

Age in years

Vote

Response with levels Abstention, No, Undecided and Yes

Source

R package carData: Chile

References

Personal communication from FLACSO/Chile.
Fox, J. (2008): Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models, Second Edition.

Examples

## Not run: 
data(plebiscite)
plebiscite$Population <- scale(plebiscite$Population)
plebiscite$Age <- scale(plebiscite$Age)
plebiscite$Income <- scale(plebiscite$Income)

star.nominal(Vote ~ SantiagoCity + Population + Gender + Age + Education + 
Income, data = plebiscite)

## End(Not run)