merge_small_options {ei.Datasets}

Merge small parties and/or candidates

Description

Merge small parties and also small candidates by, respectively, aggregating them in the options 'Other parties votes' and 'Other candidates votes'.

Usage

merge_small_options(x, min.party, min.candidate)

Arguments

x

A tibble with the same components and structure as the tibbles in the ei.Datasets package. For instance, like the ei_NZ_2020 object.

min.party

A number between 0 and 100. Those parties which individually did not reach at least min.party% of the election-district vote are grouped in the option ‘Other parties votes’.

min.candidate

A number between 0 and 100. Those candidates which individually did not reach at least min.candididate% of the election-district vote are grouped in the option ‘Other candidates votes’.

Value

A tibble similar to x with small parties and candidates merged on, respectively, ‘Other parties votes’ and ‘Other candidates votes’, with min.party and min.candidate used to determine when an electoral option is small.

Author(s)

Jose M. Pavia, [e-mail]

References

Pavia, JM (2021). ei.Datasets: Real datasets for assessing ecological inference algorithms, Social Science Computer Review, forthcoming.

See Also

ei_NZ_2002 ei_NZ_2005 ei_NZ_2008 ei_NZ_2011 ei_NZ_2014 ei_NZ_2017 ei_NZ_2020 ei_SCO_2007

Examples

collapsed.tibble <- merge_small_options(x = ei_NZ_2020, min.party = 3, min.candidate = 5)