R: Social Attitudes Survey

Socatt {mlmRev} | R Documentation

## Social Attitudes Survey

### Description

These data come from the British Social Attitudes (BSA) Survey started in 1983. The eligible persons were all adults aged 18 or over living in private households in Britain. The data consist of completed results of 264 respondents out of 410.

### Usage

    data(Socatt)

### Format

A data frame with 1056 observations on the following 9 variables.

district

  District ID - a factor

respond

  Respondent code (within district) - a factor

year

  A factor with levels `1983`, `1984`, `1985`, and `1986`

numpos

  An ordered factor giving the number of positive answers to seven questions.

party

  Political party chosen - a factor. Levels are `conservative`, `labour`, `Lib/SDP/Alliance`, `others`, and `none`.

class

  Self assessed social class - a factor. Levels are `middle`, `upper working`, and `lower working`.

gender

  Respondent's sex. (1=male, 2=female)

age

  Age in years

religion

  Religion - a factor. Levels are `Roman Catholic`, `Protestant/Church of England`, `others`, and `none`.

### Details

These data are provided at http://multilevel.ioe.ac.uk/softrev/ as an example of multilevel data with a multinomial response. Results from several multilevel software packages are provided at this site.

### Source

http://multilevel.ioe.ac.uk/softrev/socatt.htm

### References

McGrath, K. and Waterton, J. (1986). British Social Attitudes 1983-1986 panel survey. London, Social and Community Planning Research.

### Examples

    str(Socatt)
    summary(Socatt)

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