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Election2013: Election2013 data

Description

A data set for the German 'Bundestag' election of 2013. It includes information about the elections in 2013 and in 2009 separately for each of the 299 constituencies and also demographic and other information about the constituencies themselves.

Usage

data(Election2013)

Format

A data frame with 299 observations on 114 variables. The variables of the data set are:

• 1-3: general information about the constituencies (Bundesland, ID and name of district)

• 4-42: demographic and economic information

• 43 - 50: general information about the elections in 2013 and 2009

  • Wahlberechtigte: number of eligible voters

  • Waehler: votes cast

  • UNG_ZS: invalid second votes

  • GUEL_ZS: valid second votes

• 51- 70: results of the seven biggest parties in 2013 and 2009 (smaller parties are summarized in the variable Sonstige_ZS). Everything with a '_VP' at the end is from the election in 2009. '_q' stands for proportion of second votes.

See Also

Election2013

In comparison to the Election2005 data, there are more smaller parties reported. That produces more variables and more missing values (not all of the parties stand for election in all of the constituencies).

Examples

# NOT RUN {
dim(Election2013)
datatype(Election2013)
str(Election2013)
# }