R: Race and Politics in the 1980 Presidential Vote

Vote1980 {vcdExtra} | R Documentation

## Race and Politics in the 1980 Presidential Vote

### Description

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

### Usage

    data(Vote1980)

### 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`; `Carter` represents Jimmy Carter or other.

`Freq`

  a numeric vector

### Details

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

### 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.

### 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))

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