freehmsDataBE {ordgam}

Perception of gay men and lesbians in Belgium.

Description

Data extracted from the European Social Survey (2018) conducted in a series of European countries including Belgium. Each of the 1737 participants (aged at least 15) was asked to react to the following statement, "Gay men and lesbians should be free to live their own life as they wish", with a positioning on a Likert scale going from 1 (=Agree strongly) to 5 (=Disagree strongly), with 3 labelled as Neither agree nor disagree.

Usage

data(freehmsDataBE)

Format

A data frame with 1737 rows and 5 columns.

freehms

Ordinal response (1: Agree strongly to 5: Disagree strongly).

gndr

Gender of the respondent.

age

Age of the respondent.

eduyrs

Number of years of education completed.

region

Belgian region of residence: WAL (Wallonia), FL (Flanders) or BXL (Brussels).

References

Lambert, P. and Gressani, 0. (2023) Penalty parameter selection and asymmetry corrections to Laplace approximations in Bayesian P-splines models. Statistical Modelling. <doi:10.1177/1471082X231181173>. Preprint: <arXiv:2210.01668>.

European Social Survey Round 9 Data (2018) Data file edition 3.1. NSD - Norwegian Centre for Research Data, Norway.