Last data update: 2014.03.03
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R: British Election Panel Study
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.
Examples
summary(BEPS)
if (require(splines) && require(nnet)){ # for bs() and multinom()
beps <- multinom(vote ~ age + gender + economic.cond.national + economic.cond.household
+ Blair + Hague + Kennedy + bs(Europe, 3)*political.knowledge, data=BEPS)
europe.knowledge <- effect("bs(Europe, 3)*political.knowledge", beps,
xlevels=list(Europe=seq(1, 11, length=50), political.knowledge=0:3),
given.values=c(gendermale=0.5))
plot(europe.knowledge)
plot(europe.knowledge, style="stacked", colors=c("blue", "red", "orange"), rug=FALSE)
}
Results
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