EURPAR2 {mudfold}

Preferences of European party activists.

Description

European party activists preferences for two political parties in the European parliament in 1980. A sample consisted of 1786 individuals are asked to pick 2 out of 6 political parties from the European parliament.

Usage

data("EURPAR2")

Format

A data frame with 1786 observations (responses) on the following 6 binary valued items.

communists

Communistic political party;

socdemocr

Social Democratic political party;

demprogres

Progressive Democratic political party;

liberals

Liberal Democratic political party;

christians

Christian Democratic political party;

conservat

Conservative political party;

Details

The data have been first studied by Van Schuur (1984) and further by W. J. Post (1992).

Source

W.H. Van Schuur.(1984). Structure in Political Beliefs: A New Model for Stochastic Unfolding with Application to European Party Activists. CT Press.

References

W.H. Van Schuur.(1984). Structure in Political Beliefs: A New Model for Stochastic Unfolding with Application to European Party Activists. CT Press.

W.J. Post. (1992). Nonparametric Unfolding Models: A Latent Structure Approach. M & T series. DSWO Press.

Examples

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