BEPS {effects}R Documentation

British Election Panel Study

Description

These data are drawn from the 1997-2001 British Election Panel Study (BEPS).

Usage

BEPS

Format

A data frame with 1525 observations on the following 10 variables.

vote
Party choice: Conservative, Labour, or Liberal Democrat
age
in years
economic.cond.national
Assessment of current national economic conditions, 1 to 5.
economic.cond.household
Assessment of current household economic conditions, 1 to 5.
Blair
Assessment of the Labour leader, 1 to 5.
Hague
Assessment of the Conservative leader, 1 to 5.
Kennedy
Assessment of the leader of the Liberal Democrats, 1 to 5.
Europe
an 11-point scale that measures respondents' attitudes toward European integration. High scores represent `Eurosceptic' sentiment.
political.knowledge
Knowledge of parties' positions on European integration, 0 to 3.
gender
female or male.

References

J. Fox and R. Andersen (2006) Effect displays for multinomial and proportional-odds logit models. Sociological Methodology 36, 225–255.


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