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Race and Politics in the 1980 Presidential Vote

Vote1980.Rd

Data from the 1982 General Social Survey on votes in the 1980 U.S. presidential election in relation to race and political conservatism.

Usage

data(Vote1980)

Format

A frequency data frame representing a 2 x 7 x 2 table, with 28 observations on the following 4 variables.

race

a factor with levels NonWhite White

conservatism

a factor with levels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7, 1=most liberal, 7=most conservative

votefor

a factor with levels Carter Reagan; Carter represents Jimmy Carter or other.

Freq

a numeric vector

Details

The data contains a number of sampling zeros in the frequencies of NonWhites voting for Ronald Reagan.

Source

Clogg, C. & Shockey, J. W. (1988). In Nesselroade, J. R. & Cattell, R. B. (ed.) Multivariate Analysis of Discrete Data, Handbook of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, New York: Plenum Press.

References

Agresti, A. (1990) Categorical Data Analysis, Table 4.12 New York: Wiley-Interscience.

Friendly, M. (2000) Visualizing Categorical Data, Example 7.5 Cary, NC: SAS Institute.

Examples

data(Vote1980)
fourfold(xtabs(Freq ~ race + votefor + conservatism, 
  data=Vote1980), 
  mfrow=c(2,4))