nes96 {faraway}

US 1996 national election study

Description

10 variable subset of the 1996 American National Election Study. Missing values and "don't know" responses have been se deleted. Respondents expressing a voting preference other than Clinton or Dole have been removed.

Format

A data frame with 944 observations on the following 10 variables.

popul

population of respondent's location in 1000s of people

TVnews

days in the past week spent watching news on TV

selfLR

Left-Right self-placement of respondent: an ordered factor with levels extremely liberal, extLib < liberal, Lib < slightly liberal, sliLib < moderate, Mod < slightly conservative, sliCon < conservative, Con < extremely conservative, extCon

ClinLR

Left-Right placement of Bill Clinton (same scale as selfLR): an ordered factor with levels extLib < Lib < sliLib < Mod < sliCon < Con < extCon

DoleLR

Left-Right placement of Bob Dole (same scale as selfLR): an ordered factor with levels extLib < Lib < sliLib < Mod < sliCon < Con < extCon

PID

Party identification: an ordered factor with levels strong Democrat, strDem < weak Democrat, weakDem < independent Democrat, indDem < independent independentindind < indepedent Republican, indRep < waek Republican, weakRep < strong Republican, strRep

age

Respondent's age in years

educ

Respondent's education: an ordered factor with levels 8 years or less, MS < high school dropout, HSdrop < high school diploma or GED, HS < some College, Coll < Community or junior College degree, CCdeg < BA degree, BAdeg < postgraduate degree, MAdeg

income

Respondent's family income: an ordered factor with levels $3Kminus < $3K-$5K < $5K-$7K < $7K-$9K < $9K-$10K < $10K-$11K < $11K-$12K < $12K-$13K < $13K-$14K < $14K-$15K < $15K-$17K < $17K-$20K < $20K-$22K < $22K-$25K < $25K-$30K < $30K-$35K < $35K-$40K < $40K-$45K < $45K-$50K < $50K-$60K < $60K-$75K < $75K-$90K < $90K-$105K < $105Kplus

vote

Expected vote in 1996 presidential election: a factor with levels Clinton and Dole

Source

Sapiro, Virginia, Steven J. Rosenstone, Donald R. Kinder, Warren E. Miller, and the National Election Studies. AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDIES, 1992-1997: COMBINED FILE [Computer file]. 2nd ICPSR version. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Center for Political Studies [producer], 1999. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999.

References

Found at http://www.stat.washington.edu/