neighbor {faraway}

Questionnaire study of neighborly help

Description

Subjects were asked questions in a study of neighborly help. Questions below are a subset of the full study.

Format

A data frame with 181 observations on the following 8 variables.

longlive

About how long have you lived where you do now? Ans is a factor with levels <6mos 6-12mos 1-3yrs 3-10yrs 10yrs

wherebfr

Where were you living before you moved to your present house? Ans is a factor with levels same Exeter Devon Britain Abroad

hownbly

How neighborly do you think the area where you now live is? Ans is a factor with levels Vunfriendly NVfriendly Average FFriendly VFriendly

knowname

Roughly how many people in your street, or in the streets just near you, do you know the names of? Ans is a factor with levels none 1-5 6-20 20+

callname

How many of those people (not counting children) would you call by their first names? Ans is a factor with levels none 1-5 6-20 20+

age

a factor with levels -18 18-30 31-50 51-65 65+

district

a factor with levels 1 2 3 4

sex

a factor with levels female male

Details

Exeter is a city in the county of Devon which is in Britain. The four districts can be briefly described as follows. District 1 was a long-established residential area near the city centre, with housing dating from the late nineteenth century. Originally working class, it now has a considerable middle class population with some student and other temporary accommodation. District 2 was a working-class housing estate dating from the 1930s, with mainly rented accommodation but some owner occupation. District 3 was the oldest part of a more recently developed, mainly middle-class, almost exclusively owner-occupied estate, dating from the 1960s. District 4 was the most recently developed part of a more sought-after middle-class residential area, with smaller but almost entirely owner-occupied properties dating from the 1970s and 1980s.

Source

P. Webley & S. Lea 1993, Human Relations 46, 65-76.