The data contain responses given by 410 individuals to four out of seven items
concerning attitude to abortion. A small number of individual did not answer
to some of the questions and this data set contains only the complete cases.
Format
379 individuals answered to the following questions after being asked if
the law should allow abortion under the circumstances presented under each item,
Item 1
The woman decides on her own that she does not.
Item 2
The couple agree that they do not wish to have a child.
Item 3
The woman is not married and does not wish to marry the man.
Item 4
The couple cannot afford any more children.
Source
1986 British Social Attitudes Survey (McGrath and Waterton, 1986).
References
Bartholomew, D., Steel, F., Moustaki, I. and Galbraith, J. (2002) The Analysis and Interpretation of
Multivariate Data for Social Scientists. London: Chapman and Hall.
Knott, M., Albanese, M. and Galbraith, J. (1990) Scoring attitudes
to abortion. The Statistician, 40, 217–223.
McGrath, K. and Waterton, J. (1986) British social attitudes, 1983-86 panel
survey. London: SCPR.
Examples
## Descriptive statistics for Abortion data
dsc <- descript(Abortion)
dsc
plot(dsc)