Learn R Programming

Stat2Data (version 2.0.1)

InsuranceVote: Congressional Votes on a Health Insurance Bill

Description

Congressional votes on an ObamaCare health insurance bill in 2009

Arguments

Format

A dataset with 435 observations on the following 9 variables.

PartyParty affiliation: D=Democrat or R=Republican
Dist.Congressional district (State-Number)
InsVoteVote on the health insurance bill: 1=yes or 0=no
RepIndicator for Republicans
DemIndicator for Democrats
PrivatePercentage of non-senior citizens in district with private health insurance
PublicPercentage of non-senior citizens in district with public health insurance
UninsuredPercentage of non-senior citizens in district with no health insurance
ObamaDistrict winner in 2008 presidential election: 1=Obama 0=McCain

Details

On 7 November 2009 the U.S. House of Representatives voted, by the narrow margin of 220-215, for a bill to enact health insurance reform. Most Democrats voted yes while almost all Republicans voted no. This dataset contains data for each of the 435 representatives.