R: election data

election {robCompositions} | R Documentation

## election data

### Description

Results of a election in Germany 2013 in different federal states

### Usage

    data(election)

### Format

A data frame with 16 observations and 8 variables

### Details

Votes for the political parties in the elections (compositional variables), and their relation to the unemployment rate and the average monthly income (external non-compositional variables). Votes are for the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union of Bavaria, also called The Union (CDU/CSU), Social Democratic Party (SDP), The Left (DIE LINKE), Alliance '90/The Greens (GRUNE), Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the rest of the parties participated in the elections (other parties). The votes are examined in absolute values (number of valid votes). The unemployment in the federal states is reported in percentages, and the average monthly income in Euros.

- `CDU_CSU` Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union of Bavaria, also called The Union

- `SDP` Social Democratic Party

- `GRUENE` Alliance '90/The Greens

- `FDP` Free Democratic Party

- `DIE_LINKE` The Left

- `other_parties` Votes for the rest of the parties participated in the elections

- `unemployment` Unemployment in the federal states in percentages

- `income` Average monthly income in Euros

### Author(s)

Petra Klynclova, Matthias Templ

### Source

German Federal Statistical Office

### References

Eurostat, http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data

### Examples

    data(election)
    str(election)

[Package robCompositions version 2.0.9 Index]