belection {GLMsData}

British election candidates

Description

The number of candidates in the British general election in 1992

Usage

data(belection)

Format

A data frame with 55 observations on the following 4 variables.

Region

the region; a factor with levels EastAnglia, EastMidlands, GreaterLondon, NorthWest, Scotland, SouthEast, SouthWest, Wales, WestMidlands and YorksHumbers

Party

the political party; a factor with levels Cons, Green, Labour, LibDem and Other

Females

the number of female candidates; a numeric vector

Males

the number of male candidates; a numeric vector

Details

The data give the number of male and females candidates in the British general election held April 9, 1992.

Source

D. J. Hand, F. Daly, A. D. Lunn, K. J. McConway, and E. Ostrowski (1994) A Handbook of Small Data Sets, London: Chapman and Hall. Dataset 374.

References

The data originally came from: The Independent, Friday 27th March, 1992.

Examples

data(belection)
plot(Females/(Females+Males) ~ Party, data=belection)