ChileR Documentation

Voting Intentions in the 1988 Chilean Plebiscite

Description

The Chile data frame has 2700 rows and 8 columns. The data are from a national survey conducted in April and May of 1988 by FLACSO/Chile. There are some missing data.

Usage

Chile

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

region

A factor with levels: C, Central; M, Metropolitan Santiago area; N, North; S, South; SA, city of Santiago.

population

Population size of respondent's community.

sex

A factor with levels: F, female; M, male.

age

in years.

education

A factor with levels (note: out of order): P, Primary; PS, Post-secondary; S, Secondary.

income

Monthly income, in Pesos.

statusquo

Scale of support for the status-quo.

vote

a factor with levels: A, will abstain; N, will vote no (against Pinochet); U, undecided; Y, will vote yes (for Pinochet).

Source

Personal communication from FLACSO/Chile.

References

Fox, J. (2008) Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models, Second Edition. Sage.

Fox, J. and Weisberg, S. (2011) An R Companion to Applied Regression, Second Edition, Sage.