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LC1980: 1980 Liberal-Conservative Scales.

Description

Liberal-Conservative 7-point scales from the 1980 National Election Study. Includes (in order) self-placement, and rankings of Carter, Reagan, Kennedy, Anderson, Republican party, Democratic Party. Stored as a matrix of integers. The numbers 0, 8, and 9 are considered to be missing values.

Usage

data(LC1980)

Arguments

Value

The data is formatted as an integer matrix with the following elements.

LC1980

matrix, containing reported placements of various stimuli on a 7 point Liberal-Conservative scale:

  • Self Self-placement on 7 point scale.

  • Carter Placement of Carter on 7 point scale.

  • Reagan Placement of Reagan on 7 point scale.

  • Kennedy Placement of Kennedy on 7 point scale.

  • Anderson Placement of Anderson on 7 point scale.

  • Republicans Placement of Republicans on 7 point scale.

  • Democrats Placement of Democrats on 7 point scale.

See Also

'aldmck', 'summary.aldmck', 'plot.aldmck', 'plot.cdf'.

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
### Loads and scales the Liberal-Conservative scales from the 1980 NES.
data(LC1980)
result <- aldmck(data=LC1980, polarity=2, respondent=1, missing=c(0,8,9),verbose=TRUE)
summary(result)
par(ask=TRUE)
plot.AM(result,xlim=c(-1.5,1.5))
plot.cdf(result)
# }

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