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psychology of debt
Description
The data arise from a large postal survey on the psychology of debt.
Format
A data frame with 464 observations on the following 13 variables.
- incomegp
income group (1=lowest, 5=highest)
- house
security of housing tenure (1=rent, 2=mortgage, 3=owned outright)
- children
number of children in household
- singpar
is the respondent a single parent?
- agegp
age group (1=youngest)
- bankacc
does the respondent have a bank account?
- bsocacc
does the respondent have a building society account?
- manage
self-rating of money management skill (high values=high skill)
- ccarduse
how often did s/he use credit cards (1=never... 3=regularly)
- cigbuy
does s/he buy cigarettes?
- xmasbuy
does s/he buy Christmas presents for children?
- locintrn
score on a locus of control scale (high values=internal)
- prodebt
score on a scale of attitudes to debt (high values=favourable to debt
Details
All yes/no questions are coded 0=no, 1=yes. Locus of control is a personality measure introduced by Rotter, which claims to differentiate people according to how much they feel things that happen to them are as a result of processes within themselves (internal locus of control) or outside events (external locus of control).
Source
Lea, Webley & Walker, 1995, Journal of Economic Psychology, 16, 181-201 Data obtained from http://people.exeter.ac.uk/SEGLea/.