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election: election data

Description

Results of a election in Germany 2013 in different federal states

Usage

data(election)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 16 observations and 8 variables

Author

Petra Klynclova, Matthias Templ

Details

Votes for the political parties in the elections (compositional variables), and their relation to the unemployment rate and the average monthly income (external non-compositional variables). Votes are for the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union of Bavaria, also called The Union (CDU/CSU), Social Democratic Party (SDP), The Left (DIE LINKE), Alliance '90/The Greens (GRUNE), Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the rest of the parties participated in the elections (other parties). The votes are examined in absolute values (number of valid votes). The unemployment in the federal states is reported in percentages, and the average monthly income in Euros.

CDU_CSU

Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union of Bavaria, also called The Union

SDP

Social Democratic Party

GRUENE

Alliance '90/The Greens

FDP

Free Democratic Party

DIE_LINKE

The Left

other_parties

Votes for the rest of the parties participated in the elections

unemployment

Unemployment in the federal states in percentages

income

Average monthly income in Euros

References

Eurostat, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data

Examples

Run this code

data(election)
str(election)

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