R: Womens Role in Society

womensrole {HSAUR} | R Documentation

## Womens Role in Society

### Description

Data from a survey from 1974 / 1975 asking both female and male responders about their opinion on the statement: Women should take care of running their homes and leave running the country up to men.

### Usage

    data("womensrole")

### Format

A data frame with 42 observations on the following 4 variables.

`education`

  years of education.

`sex`

  a factor with levels `Male` and `Female`.

`agree`

  number of subjects in agreement with the statement.

`disagree`

  number of subjects in disagreement with the statement.

### Details

The data are from Haberman (1973) and also given in Collett (2003). The questions here are whether the response of men and women differ.

### Source

S. J. Haberman (1973), The analysis of residuals in cross-classificed tables. Biometrics, 29, 205–220.

D. Collett (2003), Modelling Binary Data. Chapman and Hall / CRC, London. 2nd edition.

### Examples

      data("womensrole", package = "HSAUR")
      summary(subset(womensrole, sex == "Female"))
      summary(subset(womensrole, sex == "Male"))

[Package HSAUR version 1.3-9 Index]