These data come from the British Social Attitudes (BSA) Survey started
in 1983. The eligible persons were all adults aged 18 or over living
in private households in Britain. The data consist of completed
results of 264 respondents out of 410.
Usage
data(Socatt)
Format
A data frame with 1056 observations on the following 9 variables.
district
District ID - a factor
respond
Respondent code (within district) - a factor
year
A factor with levels 1983, 1984,
1985, and 1986
numpos
An ordered factor giving the number of positive answers to
seven questions.
party
Political party chosen - a factor. Levels are
conservative, labour, Lib/SDP/Alliance,
others, and none.
class
Self assessed social class - a factor. Levels are
middle, upper working, and lower working.
gender
Respondent's sex. (1=male, 2=female)
age
Age in years
religion
Religion - a factor. Levels are Roman
Catholic, Protestant/Church of England, others,
and none.
Details
These data are provided at http://multilevel.ioe.ac.uk/softrev/
as an example of multilevel data with a multinomial response. Results
from several multilevel software packages are provided at this site.