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healthcare.survey: Healthcare Survey with Two Different Wordings

Description

How does survey wording and order of options impact responses?

Usage

data("healthcare.survey")

Format

A data frame with 1503 observations on the following 2 variables.

wording

Which phrasing came first: first: pay penalty or first: receive help.

response

Response classification of approve, disapprove, or other.

Details

The survey question, where the content in the brackets was switched for each respondent. "As you may know, by 2014 nearly all Americans will be required to have health insurance. [People who do not buy insurance will pay a penalty] while [People who cannot afford it will receive financial help from the government]. Do you approve or disapprove of this policy?"

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(healthcare.survey)
table(healthcare.survey)
# }