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Public Opinion During the 1992 U.S. Presidential Election
Description
This data set contains several variables from the Center for Political Studies 1992 National Election Study. Observations with missing values on any of the variables have been deleted.
Usage
data(elec92)
Format
A data frame with 1653 observations on the following 7 variables.
caseid
NES case identification number
bush
Respondents feeling thermometer rating of George H. W. Bush
ideol
Respondents ideological self-placement, seven-point scale ranging from 1=extremely liberal to 7=extremely conservative
econ4yr
Respondents judgment whether national economy has gotten better or worse over preceding four years, five-point scale ranging from 1=much better to 5=much worse
party
Respondents party identification, seven-point scale ranging from 0=strong Democrat to 6=strong Republican
choice
Difference in respondents feeling thermometer ratings of Bush and Clinton
clinton
Respondent”s feeling thermometer rating of Bill Clinton
Source
The full data set from which these observations and variables were extracted is available on the Study Page for the American National Election Studies 1992 Time Series Study, at https://electionstudies.org/data-center/1992-time-series-study/.
References
Jacoby, William G. (1999) “Levels of Measurement and Political Research: An Optimistic View.” American Journal of Political Science 43: 271-301.
Examples
library(optiscale)
data(elec92)
summary(lm(choice ~ party + ideol + econ4yr, data = elec92))