R: Race and Politics in the 1980 Presidential Vote
Vote1980
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Race and Politics in the 1980 Presidential Vote
Description
Data from the 1982 General Social Survey on votes in the 1980 U.S.
presidential election in relation to race and political
conservatism.
Usage
data(Vote1980)
Format
A frequency data frame representing a 2 x 7 x 2 table, with 28 observations on the following 4 variables.
race
a factor with levels NonWhiteWhite
conservatism
a factor with levels 1234567,
1=most liberal, 7=most conservative
votefor
a factor with levels CarterReagan; Carter
represents Jimmy Carter or other.
Freq
a numeric vector
Details
The data contains a number of sampling zeros in the frequencies of
NonWhites voting for Ronald Reagan.
Source
Clogg, C. & Shockey, J. W. (1988).
In Nesselroade, J. R. & Cattell, R. B. (ed.)
Multivariate Analysis of Discrete Data,
Handbook of Multivariate Experimental Psychology,
New York: Plenum Press.
References
Agresti, A. (1990)
Categorical Data Analysis, Table 4.12
New York: Wiley-Interscience.
Friendly, M. (2000)
Visualizing Categorical Data, Example 7.5
Cary, NC: SAS Institute.