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LC1980: 1980 Liberal-Conservative Scales.

Description

Liberal-Conservative 7-point scales from the 1980 National Election Study. Includes (in order) self-placement, and rankings of Carter, Reagan, Kennedy, Anderson, Republican party, Democratic Party. Stored as a matrix of integers. The numbers 0, 8, and 9 are considered to be missing values.

Usage

data(LC1980)

Value

• The data is formatted as an integer matrix with the following elements.
• LC1980
  matrix, containing reported placements of various stimuli on a 7 point Liberal-Conservative scale:

  • Self

  { Self-placement on 7 point scale.} Carter{ Placement of Carter on 7 point scale.} Reagan{ Placement of Reagan on 7 point scale.} Kennedy{ Placement of Kennedy on 7 point scale.} Anderson{ Placement of Anderson on 7 point scale.} Republicans{ Placement of Republicans on 7 point scale.} Democrats{ Placement of Democrats on 7 point scale.}

source

American national Election Study. http://www.electionstudies.org/ Also availble from Keith Poole. http://voteview.edu/aldmck.htm

See Also

'aldmck', 'summary.aldmck', 'plot.aldmck', 'plot.cdf'.

Examples

### Loads and scales the Liberal-Conservative scales from the 1980 NES.
data(LC1980)
result <- aldmck(data=LC1980, polarity=2, respondent=1, missing=c(0,8,9),verbose=TRUE)
summary(result)
par(ask=TRUE)
plot.AM(result,xlim=c(-1.5,1.5))
plot.cdf(result)