ei_NZ_2008 {ei.Datasets}R Documentation

Ecological inference data sets of the 2008 New Zealand General Election.

Description

This tibble contains 70 data sets corresponding to the 2008 New Zealand General Election. Each data set includes party and candidate vote results by voting unit as well as their associate cross-distributions (for votes and percentages) at the district (electorate) level.

Usage

data(ei_NZ_2008)

Format

A tibble containing 70 observations and 6 variables:

Number_of_district

Number assigned to the district/electorate by the New Zealand Electoral Commission.

District

Name of the district/electorate.

Votes_to_parties

A tibble for each electorate/district with the party votes recorded in each voting unit of the district.

Votes_to_candidates

A tibble for each electorate/district with the candidate votes recorded in each voting unit of the district.

District_cross_votes

A tibble for each electorate/district with the parties-candidates cross-distribution of votes in the entire electorate/district.

District_cross_percentages

A tibble for each electorate/district, with the parties to candidates voter transition probabilities (in percentages) in the entire electorate/district.

Details

Description of the Votes_to_parties, Votes_to_candidates, District_cross_votes and District_cross_percentages variables in more detail, where N(i), R(i) and C(i) denote, respectively, the number of voting units, party voting options and candidate voting options in district i:

Note

The New Zealand Electoral Commission had no involvement in preparing these data sets. The raw data has been pre-processed in order to guarantee their straighforward usefulness in ecological inference procedures. Some small discrepancies exist among the figures in District_cross_percentages and District_cross_votes. The percentages are a direct translation of the published data, whereas the vote counts have been adjusted using integer linear programming to make them congruents with the figures in Votes_to_parties and Votes_to_candidates. More details in Pavia (2021). For the official results, visit https://www.electionresults.govt.nz.

Author(s)

Jose M. Pavia, pavia@uv.es

Source

Own elaboration from data available in https://www.electionresults.govt.nz, retrieved 19 January 2019.

References

ei.Datasets: Real datasets for assessing ecological inference algorithms, Social Science Computer Review, forthcoming.

See Also

ei_NZ_2002 ei_NZ_2005 ei_NZ_2011 ei_NZ_2014 ei_NZ_2017 ei_NZ_2020 ei_SCO_2007


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