politicalInformation {pscl} | R Documentation

## Interviewer ratings of respondent levels of political information

### Description

Interviewers administering the 2000 American National Election Studies assigned an ordinal rating to each respondent's "general level of information" about politics and public affairs.

### Usage

    data(politicalInformation)

### Format

A data frame with 1807 observations on the following 8 variables.

`y`

  interviewer rating, a factor with levels `Very Low` `Fairly Low` `Average` `Fairly High` `Very High`

`collegeDegree`

  a factor with levels `No` `Yes`

`female`

  a factor with levels `No` `Yes`

`age`

  a numeric vector, respondent age in years

`homeOwn`

  a factor with levels `No` `Yes`

`govt`

  a factor with levels `No` `Yes`

`length`

  a numeric vector, length of ANES pre-election interview in minutes

`id`

  a factor, unique identifier for each interviewer

### Details

Seven respondents have missing data on the ordinal interviewer rating. The covariates `age` and `length` also have some missing data.

### Source

The National Election Studies (www.electionstudies.org). THE 2000 NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY [dataset]. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Center for Political Studies [producer and distributor].

### References

Jackman, Simon. 2009. Bayesian Analysis for the Social Sciences. Wiley: Hoboken, New Jersey.

### Examples

    data(politicalInformation)

    table(politicalInformation$y,exclude=NULL)

    op <- MASS::polr(y ~ collegeDegree + female + log(age) + homeOwn + govt + log(length),
               data=politicalInformation,
               Hess=TRUE,
               method="probit")

[Package pscl version 1.5.2 Index]