| trump_approval_poll {fivethirtyeight} | R Documentation |
How Popular is Donald Trump
Description
The raw data behind the story: "How Popular is Donald Trump" https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/: Approval Poll Dataset
Usage
trump_approval_poll
Format
A data frame with 3051 rows representing individual polls and 20 variables:
- subgroup
The subgroup the poll falls into as defined by the type of people being polled (all polls, voters, adults)
- start_date
The date the polling began
- end_date
The date the polling concluded
- pollster
The polling group which produced the poll
- grade
The grade for President Trump that the respondents' approval ratings correspond to
- sample_size
The sample size of the poll
- population
The type of people being polled (a for adults, lv for likely voters, rv for registered voters)
- weight
The weight fivethirtyeight gives the poll when determining approval ratings based on historical accuracy of the pollster
- approve
The percentage of respondents who approve of the president
- disapprove
The percentage of respondents who disapprove of the president
- adjusted_approve
The percentage of respondents who approve of the president adjusted for systematic tendencies of the polling firm
- adjusted_disapprove
The percentage of respondents who approve of the president adjusted for systematic tendencies of the polling firm
- multiversions
True if there are multiple versions of the poll, False if there are not
- tracking
TRUE if the poll was tracked, FALSE if not
- url
Poll result URL
- poll_id
Poll ID number
- question_id
ID number for the question being polled
- created_date
Date the poll was created
- timestamp
Date and time the poll was compiled
Details
Variables "model_date", "influence", and "president" were deleted because each observation contained the same value for these variables: January 5, 2018; 0; and Donald Trump respectively.
Source
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-data/approval_polllist.csv and https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-data/approval_topline.csv