CES11 {carData} | R Documentation

## 2011 Canadian National Election Study, With Attitude Toward Abortion

### Description

Data are drawn from the 2011 Canadian National Election Study, including a question on banning abortion and variables relelated to the sampling design.

### Usage

    data("CES11")

### Format

A data frame with 2231 observations on the following 9 variables.

`id`

  Household ID number.

`province`

  a factor with (alphabetical) levels `AB`, `BC`, `MB`, `NB`, `NL`, `NS`, `ON`, `PE`, `QC`, `SK`; the sample was stratified by province.

`population`

  population of the respondent's province, number over age 17.

`weight`

  weight sample to size of population, taking into account unequal sampling probabilities by province and household size.

`gender`

  a factor with levels `Female`, `Male`.

`abortion`

  attitude toward abortion, a factor with levels `No`, `Yes`; answer to the question "Should abortion be banned?"

`importance`

  importance of religion, a factor with (alphabetical) levels `not`, `notvery`, `somewhat`, `very`; answer to the question, "In your life, would you say that religion is very important, somewhat important, not very important, or not important at all?"

`education`

  a factor with (alphabetical) levels `bachelors` (Bachelors degree), `college` (community college or technical school), `higher` (graduate degree), `HS` (high-school graduate), `lessHS` (less than high-school graduate), `somePS`

(some post-secondary).

`urban`

  place of residence, a factor with levels `rural`, `urban`.

### Details

This is an extract from the data set for the 2011 Canadian National Election Study distributed by the Institute for Social Research, York University.

### References

Fournier, P., Cutler, F., Soroka, S., and Stolle, D. (2013). Canadian Election Study 2011: Study documentation. Technical report, Canadian Opinion Research Archive, Queen's University, Kingson,Ontario.

Northrup, D. (2012). The 2011 Canadian Election Survey: Technical documention. Technical report, Institute for Social Research, York University, Toronto, Ontario.

### Examples

    summary(CES11)

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