R: Refugee Appeals

Greene {car} | R Documentation

## Refugee Appeals

### Description

The `Greene` data frame has 384 rows and 7 columns. These are cases filed in 1990, in which refugee claimants rejected by the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board asked the Federal Court of Appeal for leave to appeal the negative ruling of the Board.

### Usage

    Greene

### Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

judge

  Name of judge hearing case. A factor with levels: `Desjardins`, `Heald`, `Hugessen`, `Iacobucci`, `MacGuigan`, `Mahoney`, `Marceau`, `Pratte`, `Stone`, `Urie`.

nation

  Nation of origin of claimant. A factor with levels: `Argentina`, `Bulgaria`, `China`, `Czechoslovakia`, `El.Salvador`, `Fiji`, `Ghana`, `Guatemala`, `India`, `Iran`, `Lebanon`, `Nicaragua`, `Nigeria`, `Pakistan`, `Poland`, `Somalia`, `Sri.Lanka`.

rater

  Judgment of independent rater. A factor with levels: `no`, case has no merit; `yes`, case has some merit (leave to appeal should be granted).

decision

  Judge's decision. A factor with levels: `no`, leave to appeal not granted; `yes`, leave to appeal granted.

language

  Language of case. A factor with levels: `English`, `French`.

location

  Location of original refugee claim. A factor with levels: `Montreal`, `other`, `Toronto`.

success

  Logit of success rate, for all cases from the applicant's nation.

### Source

Personal communication from Ian Greene, Department of Political Science, York University.

### References

Fox, J. (2008) Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models, Second Edition. Sage.

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