Race and Politics in the 1980 Presidential Vote

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

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; Carterrepresents Jimmy Carter or other.
Freq: a numeric vector

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.

Details

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

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))