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debt: psychology of debt

Description

The data arise from a large postal survey on the psychology of debt.

Usage

data(debt)

Arguments

source

Lea, Webley & Walker, 1995, Journal of Economic Psychology, 16, 181-201 Data obtained from http://www.exeter.ac.uk/~SEGLea.

Details

All yes/no questions are coded 0=no, 1=yes. Locus of control is a personality measure introduced by Rotter, which claims to differentiate people according to how much they feel things that happen to them are as a result of processes within themselves (internal locus of control) or outside events (external locus of control).