LC1980 {basicspace}R Documentation

1980 Liberal-Conservative Scales.

Description

Liberal-Conservative 7-point scales from the 1980 National Election Study. Includes (in order) self-placement, and rankings of Carter, Reagan, Kennedy, Anderson, Republican party, Democratic Party. Stored as a matrix of integers. The numbers 0, 8, and 9 are considered to be missing values.

Usage

data(LC1980)

Value

The data is formatted as an integer matrix with the following elements.

LC1980 matrix, containing reported placements of various stimuli on a 7 point Liberal-Conservative scale:
    Self
    Self-placement on 7 point scale.
    Carter
    Placement of Carter on 7 point scale.
    Reagan
    Placement of Reagan on 7 point scale.
    Kennedy
    Placement of Kennedy on 7 point scale.
    Anderson
    Placement of Anderson on 7 point scale.
    Republicans
    Placement of Republicans on 7 point scale.
    Democrats
    Placement of Democrats on 7 point scale.

Author(s)

Keith Poole kpoole@ucsd.edu

Howard Rosenthal rosentha@princeton.edu

Jeffrey Lewis jblewis@ucla.edu

James Lo jameslo@ucla.edu

Royce Carroll rcarroll@rice.edu

Source

American national Election Study. http://www.electionstudies.org/

Also availble from Keith Poole. http://voteview.edu/aldmck.htm

See Also

'aldmck', 'summary.aldmck', 'plot.aldmck', 'plot.cdf'.

Examples

### Loads and scales the Liberal-Conservative scales from the 1980 NES.
data(LC1980)
result <- aldmck(data=LC1980, polarity=2, respondent=1, missing=c(0,8,9),verbose=TRUE)
summary(result)
par(ask=T)
plot.aldmck(result,xlim=c(-1.5,1.5))
plot.cdf(result,ask=T)
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