Socatt {lme4}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

data(Socatt)
str(Socatt)
summary(Socatt)

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