carData (version 3.0-3)

BEPS: British Election Panel Study

Description

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

Usage

BEPS

Format

A data frame with 1525 observations on the following 10 variables.

vote

Party choice: Conservative, Labour, or Liberal Democrat

age

in years

economic.cond.national

Assessment of current national economic conditions, 1 to 5.

economic.cond.household

Assessment of current household economic conditions, 1 to 5.

Blair

Assessment of the Labour leader, 1 to 5.

Hague

Assessment of the Conservative leader, 1 to 5.

Kennedy

Assessment of the leader of the Liberal Democrats, 1 to 5.

Europe

an 11-point scale that measures respondents' attitudes toward European integration. High scores represent `Eurosceptic' sentiment.

political.knowledge

Knowledge of parties' positions on European integration, 0 to 3.

gender

female or male.

References

J. Fox and R. Andersen (2006) Effect displays for multinomial and proportional-odds logit models. Sociological Methodology 36, 225--255.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
summary(BEPS)
# }