BEPS

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

datasets


Datasets to Accompany J. Fox and S. Weisberg,
An R Companion to Applied Regression, Third Edition, Sage (forthcoming).

John Fox

carData

Companion to Applied Regression Data Sets

Sanford Weisberg

Brad Price

BEPS function

A data frame with 1525 observations on the following 10 variables.<dl class="dl-horizontal">
 <dt><code>vote</code></dt><dd>Party choice: <code>Conservative</code>, <code>Labour</code>, or <code>Liberal Democrat</code></dd>
 <dt><code>age</code></dt><dd>in years</dd>
 <dt><code>economic.cond.national</code></dt><dd>Assessment of current national economic conditions, 1 to 5.</dd>
 <dt><code>economic.cond.household</code></dt><dd>Assessment of current household economic conditions, 1 to 5.</dd>
 <dt><code>Blair</code></dt><dd>Assessment of the Labour leader, 1 to 5.</dd>
 <dt><code>Hague</code></dt><dd>Assessment of the Conservative leader, 1 to 5.</dd>
 <dt><code>Kennedy</code></dt><dd>Assessment of the leader of the Liberal Democrats, 1 to 5.</dd>
 <dt><code>Europe</code></dt><dd>an 11-point scale that measures respondents' attitudes
		toward European integration. High scores represent `Eurosceptic'
		sentiment.</dd>
 <dt><code>political.knowledge</code></dt><dd>Knowledge of parties' positions on European integration, 0 to 3.</dd>
 <dt><code>gender</code></dt><dd><code>female</code> or <code>male</code>.</dd>
 </dl>

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British Election Panel Study — BEPS

A data frame with 1525 observations on the following 10 variables.<dl class='dl-horizontal'>
 <dt><code>vote</code></dt><dd>Party choice: <code>Conservative</code>, <code>Labour</code>, or <code>Liberal Democrat</code></dd>
 <dt><code>age</code></dt><dd>in years</dd>
 <dt><code>economic.cond.national</code></dt><dd>Assessment of current national economic conditions, 1 to 5.</dd>
 <dt><code>economic.cond.household</code></dt><dd>Assessment of current household economic conditions, 1 to 5.</dd>
 <dt><code>Blair</code></dt><dd>Assessment of the Labour leader, 1 to 5.</dd>
 <dt><code>Hague</code></dt><dd>Assessment of the Conservative leader, 1 to 5.</dd>
 <dt><code>Kennedy</code></dt><dd>Assessment of the leader of the Liberal Democrats, 1 to 5.</dd>
 <dt><code>Europe</code></dt><dd>an 11-point scale that measures respondents' attitudes
		toward European integration. High scores represent `Eurosceptic'
		sentiment.</dd>
 <dt><code>political.knowledge</code></dt><dd>Knowledge of parties' positions on European integration, 0 to 3.</dd>
 <dt><code>gender</code></dt><dd><code>female</code> or <code>male</code>.</dd>
 </dl>

BEPS: British Election Panel Study

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