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British Election Panel Study

BEPS.Rd

These data are drawn from the 1997-2001 British Election Panel Study (BEPS).

Usage

BEPS

Format

A data frame with 1525 observations on the following 10 variables.

vote

Party choice: Conservative, Labour, or Liberal Democrat

age

in years

economic.cond.national

Assessment of current national economic conditions, 1 to 5.

economic.cond.household

Assessment of current household economic conditions, 1 to 5.

Blair

Assessment of the Labour leader, 1 to 5.

Hague

Assessment of the Conservative leader, 1 to 5.

Kennedy

Assessment of the leader of the Liberal Democrats, 1 to 5.

Europe

an 11-point scale that measures respondents' attitudes toward European integration. High scores represent `Eurosceptic' sentiment.

political.knowledge

Knowledge of parties' positions on European integration, 0 to 3.

gender

female or male.

References

J. Fox and R. Andersen (2006) Effect displays for multinomial and proportional-odds logit models. Sociological Methodology 36, 225–255.

Examples

summary(BEPS)
#>                vote          age        economic.cond.national
#>  Conservative    :462   Min.   :24.00   Min.   :1.000         
#>  Labour          :720   1st Qu.:41.00   1st Qu.:3.000         
#>  Liberal Democrat:343   Median :53.00   Median :3.000         
#>                         Mean   :54.18   Mean   :3.246         
#>                         3rd Qu.:67.00   3rd Qu.:4.000         
#>                         Max.   :93.00   Max.   :5.000         
#>  economic.cond.household     Blair           Hague          Kennedy     
#>  Min.   :1.00            Min.   :1.000   Min.   :1.000   Min.   :1.000  
#>  1st Qu.:3.00            1st Qu.:2.000   1st Qu.:2.000   1st Qu.:2.000  
#>  Median :3.00            Median :4.000   Median :2.000   Median :3.000  
#>  Mean   :3.14            Mean   :3.334   Mean   :2.747   Mean   :3.135  
#>  3rd Qu.:4.00            3rd Qu.:4.000   3rd Qu.:4.000   3rd Qu.:4.000  
#>  Max.   :5.00            Max.   :5.000   Max.   :5.000   Max.   :5.000  
#>      Europe       political.knowledge    gender   
#>  Min.   : 1.000   Min.   :0.000       female:812  
#>  1st Qu.: 4.000   1st Qu.:0.000       male  :713  
#>  Median : 6.000   Median :2.000                   
#>  Mean   : 6.729   Mean   :1.542                   
#>  3rd Qu.:10.000   3rd Qu.:2.000                   
#>  Max.   :11.000   Max.   :3.000