2011 Canadian National Election Study, With Attitude Toward Abortion

Data are drawn from the 2011 Canadian National Election Study, including a question on banning abortion and variables related to the sampling design.

Usage

data("CES11")

Format

A data frame with 2231 observations on the following 9 variables.

id: Household ID number.
province: a factor with (alphabetical) levels AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, NS, ON, PE, QC, SK; the sample was stratified by province.
population: population of the respondent's province, number over age 17.
weight: weight sample to size of population, taking into account unequal sampling probabilities by province and household size.
gender: a factor with levels Female, Male.
abortion: attitude toward abortion, a factor with levels No, Yes; answer to the question "Should abortion be banned?"
importance: importance of religion, a factor with (alphabetical) levels not, notvery, somewhat, very; answer to the question, "In your life, would you say that religion is very important, somewhat important, not very important, or not important at all?"
education: a factor with (alphabetical) levels bachelors (Bachelors degree), college (community college or technical school), higher (graduate degree), HS (high-school graduate), lessHS (less than high-school graduate), somePS (some post-secondary).
urban: place of residence, a factor with levels rural, urban.

Details

This is an extract from the data set for the 2011 Canadian National Election Study distributed by the Institute for Social Research, York University.

References

Fournier, P., Cutler, F., Soroka, S., and Stolle, D. (2013). Canadian Election Study 2011: Study documentation. Technical report, Canadian Opinion Research Archive, Queen's University, Kingson,Ontario.

Northrup, D. (2012). The 2011 Canadian Election Survey: Technical documention. Technical report, Institute for Social Research, York University, Toronto, Ontario.

Examples

summary(CES11)
#>        id            province     population          weight       
#>  Min.   :   2.0   ON     :687   Min.   : 105780   Min.   :  435.3  
#>  1st Qu.: 858.5   QC     :652   1st Qu.:2515180   1st Qu.: 4488.8  
#>  Median :1680.0   BC     :252   Median :5996930   Median : 6153.9  
#>  Mean   :1698.9   MB     :112   Mean   :5290062   Mean   : 7182.2  
#>  3rd Qu.:2550.0   SK     :107   3rd Qu.:9439960   3rd Qu.: 8977.6  
#>  Max.   :3455.0   AB     :106   Max.   :9439960   Max.   :43515.2  
#>                   (Other):315                                      
#>     gender     abortion      importance      education     urban     
#>  Female:1244   No :1818   not     :607   bachelors:506   rural: 556  
#>  Male  : 987   Yes: 413   notvery :315   college  :491   urban:1675  
#>                           somewhat:714   higher   :246               
#>                           very    :595   HS       :467               
#>                                          lessHS   :267               
#>                                          somePS   :254               
#>