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Data (ratings): Music (US General social survey 1993)
Description
The dataset contains data on 18 items referring to the liking of musical styles (ratings on a 5-point Likert type response scale) and three subject covariates. The data is an excerpt from the US General Social Survey 1993. Missing values have been removed from the subject variables.
Usage
musicFormat
A data frame with 1597 observations.
The variables bigb through hvym are responses to items asking for liking/disliking of type of music:
Do you like it very much (1), like it (2), have mixed feelings (3), dislike it (4), dislike it very much (5).
bigblike or dislike bigband music
bluglike or dislike bluegrass music
counlike or dislike country western music
bluelike or dislike blues or r and b music
musilike or dislike broadway musicals
claslike or dislike classical music
folklike or dislike folk music
gosplike or dislike gospel music
jazzlike or dislike jazz
latilike or dislike latin music
moodlike or dislike easy listening music
newalike or dislike new age music
operlike or dislike opera
raplike or dislike rap music
regglike or dislike reggae music
conrlike or dislike contemporary rock music
oldilike or dislike oldies rock music
hvymlike or dislike heavy metal music
ageage in years
educhighest year of school completed
sex1 male, 2 female
Source
Davis, J. A., Smith, T. W., & Marsden, P. V. (2016) General Social Survey, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2002 with Cultural, Information Security, and Freedom Modules [United States]. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]. doi:10.3886/ICPSR35536.v2
Examples
summary(music)