Womens Role in Society

Description

Data from a survey from 1974 / 1975 asking both female and male responders about their opinion on the statement: Women should take care of running their homes and leave running the country up to men.

Usage

data("womensrole")

Format

A data frame with 42 observations on the following 4 variables.

education

years of education.

sex

a factor with levels Male and Female.

agree

number of subjects in agreement with the statement.

disagree

number of subjects in disagreement with the statement.

Details

The data are from Haberman (1973) and also given in Collett (2003). The questions here are whether the response of men and women differ.

Source

S. J. Haberman (1973), The analysis of residuals in cross-classificed tables. Biometrics, 29, 205–220.

D. Collett (2003), Modelling Binary Data. Chapman and Hall / CRC, London. 2nd edition.

Examples

  data("womensrole", package = "HSAUR")
  summary(subset(womensrole, sex == "Female"))
  summary(subset(womensrole, sex == "Male"))