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Bollen Data on Industrialization and Political Democracy
Description
Data set used in some of OpenMx's examples, for instance WLS. The data were reported in Bollen (1989, p. 428, Table 9.4) This set includes data from 75 developing countries each assessed on four measures of democracy measured twice (1960 and 1965), and three measures of industrialization measured once (1960).
Usage
data("Bollen")
Format
A data frame with 75 observations on the following 11 numeric variables.
y1
Freedom of the press, 1960
y2
Freedom of political opposition, 1960
y3
Fairness of elections, 1960
y4
Effectiveness of elected legislature, 1960
y5
Freedom of the press, 1965
y6
Freedom of political opposition, 1965
y7
Fairness of elections, 1965
y8
Effectiveness of elected legislature, 1965
x1
GNP per capita, 1960
x2
Energy consumption per capita, 1960
x3
Percentage of labor force in industry, 1960
Details
Variables y1-y4 and y5-y8 are typically used as indicators of the latent trait of “political democracy” in 1960 and 1965 respectively. x1-x3 are used as indicators of industrialization (1960).
Source
The sem
package (in turn, via personal communication Bollen to Fox)
References
Bollen, K. A. (1979). Political democracy and the timing of development. American Sociological Review, 44, 572-587.
Bollen, K. A. (1980). Issues in the comparative measurement of political democracy. American Sociological Review, 45, 370-390.
Bollen, K. A. (1989). Structural equation models. New York: Wiley-Interscience.
Examples
data(Bollen)
str(Bollen)
plot(y1 ~ y2, data = Bollen)