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German Sample Data (complete orderings)
Description
The German Sample dataset (d_german) is part of a comparative cross-sectional study on political actions and mass participation involving five Western countries. The dataset regards a sample of N=2262 German respondents who were asked to rank K=4 political goals in order of desirability, namely: 1 = maintaining order in the nation, 2 = giving people more say in the decisions of government, 3 = fighting rising prices and 4 = protecting freedom of speech. The dataset is composed of complete orderings.
Usage
data(d_german)Format
Object of S3 class c("top_ordering","matrix") gathering a matrix of complete orderings with N=2262 rows and K=4 columns. Each row lists the political goals from the most desiderable (Rank_1) to the least desiderable (Rank_4) for a given respondent.
References
Croon, M. A. (1989). Latent class models for the analysis of rankings. In De Soete, G., Feger, H. and Klauer, K. C. (eds), New Developments in Psychological Choice Modeling, pages 99–121. North-Holland: Amsterdam.
Barnes, S. H. et al. (1979). Political action. Mass participation in five Western democracies. London: Sage.
Examples
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