pscl (version 1.02)

politicalInformation: Interviewer ratings of respondent levels of political information

Description

Interviewers administering the 2000 American National Election Studies assigned an ordinal rating to each respondent's "general level of information" about politics and public affairs.

Usage

data(politicalInformation)

source

The National Election Studies (www.electionstudies.org). THE 2000 NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY [dataset]. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Center for Political Studies [producer and distributor].

Details

Seven respondents have missing data on the ordinal interviewer rating. The covariates age and length also have some missing data.

References

Jackman, Simon. 2009. Bayesian Analysis for the Social Sciences. Wiley: Hoboken, New Jersey.

Examples

data(politicalInformation)

table(politicalInformation$y,exclude=NULL)

require(MASS)
op <- polr(y ~ collegeDegree + female + log(age) + homeOwn + govt + log(length),
           data=politicalInformation,
           Hess=TRUE,
           method="probit")