PLMIX (version 2.1.1)

d_german: German Sample Data (complete orderings)

Description

The German Sample dataset (d_german) is part of a comparative cross-sectional study on political actions and mass participation involving five Western countries. The dataset regards a sample of $N=2262$ German respondents who were asked to rank $K=4$ political goals in order of desirability, namely: 1 = maintaining order in the nation, 2 = giving people more say in the decisions of government, 3 = fighting rising prices and 4 = protecting freedom of speech. The dataset is composed of complete orderings.

Usage

data(d_german)

Format

Object of S3 class c("top_ordering","matrix") gathering a matrix of complete orderings with $N=2262$ rows and $K=4$ columns. Each row lists the political goals from the most desiderable (Rank_1) to the least desiderable (Rank_4) for a given respondent.

References

Croon, M. A. (1989). Latent class models for the analysis of rankings. In De Soete, G., Feger, H. and Klauer, K. C. (eds), New Developments in Psychological Choice Modeling, pages 99--121. North-Holland: Amsterdam.

Barnes, S. H. et al. (1979). Political action. Mass participation in five Western democracies. London: Sage.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(d_german)
head(d_german)
# }