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Abortion: Attitude Towards Abortion

Description

The data contain responses given by 410 individuals to four out of seven items concerning attitude to abortion. A small number of individual did not answer to some of the questions and this data set contains only the complete cases.

source

1986 British Social Attitudes Survey (McGrath and Waterton, 1986).

References

Bartholomew, D., Steel, F., Moustaki, I. and Galbraith, J. (2002) The Analysis and Interpretation of Multivariate Data for Social Scientists. London: Chapman and Hall. Knott, M., Albanese, M. and Galbraith, J. (1990) Scoring attitudes to abortion. The Statistician, 40, 217--223. McGrath, K. and Waterton, J. (1986) British social attitudes, 1983-86 panel survey. London: SCPR.

Examples

## Descriptive statistics for Abortion data
dsc <- descript(Abortion)
dsc
plot(dsc)