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Data from Joshi and Mason (2008) on voter turnout in Nepal
Description
Data from a study on the relationship between land tenure and voter turnout in the three rounds of parliamentary elections in Nepal from the restoration of democracy in 1990 to 1999. Data is at the district-level (N = 75). Variable names are taken directly from original dataset. The data is publicly available and has been included here with the endorsement of the authors.
Usage
data(nepaldem)
Format
A data frame with 76 rows and 73 variables:
- sn
a column of identifiers. This column is not a variable
- district
names of the district in Nepal used in analysis
- householdsize
average size of household in district
- total_holding
total land holding
- noown_single_tenure
number of households that own and cultivate land under single tenure
- norent_single_ten
number of households that rent for service and cultivate land under single tenure
- noother_single_ten
number of households that cultivate under single tenure and have another set up other than those above
- nomore1_ten_hold
number of households with more than one tenure
- noholding_below1_pa
number of households that hold less than 1.0 hectares of land
- noholding_2to3_pa
number of households that hold 2 to 3 hectares of land
- noholding_4to5_pa
number of households that hold 4 to 5 hectares of land
- noholding_6to9_pa
number of households that hold 6 to 9 hectares of land
- noholding_10_pa
number of households with more than 10 parcels of land
- total_ha
total hectares of land
- total_parcel
total parcels of land
- no_hold_fixmoney2
subsection of number of households with fixed cash rent
- no_hold_fixproduct2
subsection of households with fixed product rent
- no_hold_share2
subsection of households participating in sharecropping
- no_hold_services2
subsection of households participating in sharecropping
- no_hold_mortgage2
subsection of households with a mortgage
- no_hold_fixmoney1
subsection of households with fixed cash rent
- no_hold_fixproduct1
subsection of households with fixed product rent
- no_hold_share1
subsection of households participating in sharecropping
- no_hold_services1
subsection of households with rent for service
- no_hold_mortgage1
subsection of households with a mortgage
- totalhouseholds
total number of households
- landless
number of landless households
- totalvoters1991
total number of voters in 1991
- totalcastedvote1991
total number of votes cast in 1991
- totalvalidvote1991
total number of valid votes in 1991
- constituency1991
constituency in 1991
- totalcontestants1991
total number of candidates contesting elections in 1991
- totalvoters1994
total number of voters in 1994
- totalcastedvote1994
total number of votes cast in 1994
- totalvalidvote1994
total number of valid votes in 1994
- constituency1994
constituency in 1994
- totalcontestants1994
total number of candidates contesting elections in 1994
- togalvoters1999
total number of voters in 1999
- totalcastedvote1999
total number of votes cast in 1999
- totalvalidvote1999
total number of valid votes in 1999
- constituency1999
constituency in 1999
- totalcontestants1999
total number of candidates contesting elections in 1999
- pop_2001
population in 2001
- hdi_1996
HDI 1996 (index 0 to 1)
- per_without_instcredit
percent without access to institutional credit
- access_instutional_credit
access to institutional credit
- total_hh_sharecrop
total number of households participating in sharecropping
- total_hh_fixmoney
total number of households with fixed cash rent
- total_hh_fixproduct
total number of households with fixed product rent
- total_hh_service
total number of households with rent for service
- total_hh_mortgage
total number of households with a mortgage
- total_killed
total number of people killed. This serves as a measure of political violence during the insurgency
- percent_regvote1991
election turnout for 1991 as measured by the percentage of registered voters who voted in the national parliamentary election
- percent_regvote1994
election turnout for 1994 as measured by the percentage of registered voters who voted in the national parliamentary election
- percent_regvote1999
election turnout for 1999 as measured by the percentage of registered voters who voted in the national parlimentary election
- per_total_hold_sharecrop
percent of sharecropping households
- per_total_hold_fixmoney
percent of households that have a fixed cash rent
- per_total_hold_fixproduct
percent of households that have a fixed product rent
- per_total_hold_service
percent of households that have rent for service
- per_total_hold_mortgage
percent of households with a mortgage
- per_noholding_below1_pa
- landless_1000
landless households (in 1,000s)
- totoalkilled_1000
total number of people killed (in 1,000s). This serves as a measure of political violence during the insurgency
- cast_eth_fract
caste and ethnic fractionalization
- languistic_fract
linguistic fractionalization
- landless_gap
landless households (in 1,000s) gap
- below1pa_gap
percent smallholder households gap
- sharecrop_gap
percent sharecropping households gap
- service_gap
percent rent for service households gap
- fixmoney_gap
percent fixed cash rent households gap
- fixprod_gap
percent fixed product rent households gap
- hdi_gap
HDI 1996 (index 0 to 1) gap
- ln_pop2001
population in 2001 (logged)
- hdi_gap1
HDI 1996 (index 0 to 1) gap (positive values)
Source
Journal of Peace Research Replication Datasets
References
Joshi, M., & Mason, T. D. (2008). Between democracy and revolution: peasant support for insurgency versus democracy in Nepal. Journal of Peace Research, 45(6), 765-782. doi: 10.1177/0022343308096155
Examples
data(nepaldem)
library(MASS)
library(modeLLtest)
# Models from Joshi and Mason (2008)
model_1991 <- rlm(percent_regvote1991 ~ landless_gap +
below1pa_gap + sharecrop_gap + service_gap + fixmoney_gap +
fixprod_gap + per_without_instcredit + hdi_gap1 + ln_pop2001 +
totalcontestants1991 + cast_eth_fract, data = nepaldem)
model_1994 <- rlm(percent_regvote1994 ~ landless_gap +
below1pa_gap + sharecrop_gap + service_gap + fixmoney_gap +
fixprod_gap + per_without_instcredit + hdi_gap1 + ln_pop2001 +
totalcontestants1994 + cast_eth_fract, data = nepaldem)
model_1999a <- rlm(percent_regvote1999 ~ landless_gap +
below1pa_gap + sharecrop_gap + service_gap + fixmoney_gap +
fixprod_gap + per_without_instcredit + hdi_gap1 + ln_pop2001 +
totalcontestants1999 + cast_eth_fract, data = nepaldem)
model_1999b <- rlm(percent_regvote1999 ~ landless_gap +
below1pa_gap + sharecrop_gap + service_gap + fixmoney_gap +
fixprod_gap + per_without_instcredit + totoalkilled_1000 +
hdi_gap1 + ln_pop2001 + totalcontestants1999 + cast_eth_fract,
data = nepaldem)
# Comparing OLS to RR fit for model_1999b
obj_cvdm_jm <- cvdm(percent_regvote1999 ~ landless_gap +
below1pa_gap + sharecrop_gap + service_gap + fixmoney_gap +
fixprod_gap + per_without_instcredit + totoalkilled_1000 +
hdi_gap1 + ln_pop2001 + totalcontestants1999 + cast_eth_fract,
data = nepaldem, method1 = "OLS", method2 = "RLM-MM")
obj_cvdm_jm