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Election2005: Election2005 data

Description

A data set for the German 'Bundestag' election of 2005. It includes information about the elections in 2005 and in 2002 separately for each of the 299 constituencies and also demographic and other information about the constituencies themselves.

Usage

data(Election2005)

Format

A data frame with 299 observations on 70 variables. The variables of the data set are:

• 1-4: general information about the constituencies (ID and name of district, state)

• 5-40: demographic and economic information

• 41 - 48: general information about the elections in 2005 and 2002

  • WBerechE: number of eligible voters

  • WE: votes cast

  • UngZE: invalid second preferences

  • GulZE: valid second preferences

• 49- 70: results of the five biggest parties in 2005 and 2002 (smaller parties are summarized in the variable Rest). Everything with a 'V' or 'v' at the end is from the election in 2005. 'ze' and 'zv' at the end refer to second preference votes.

See Also

Election2013

Examples

# NOT RUN {
dim(Election2005)
datatype(Election2005)
str(Election2005)
# }