fivethirtyeight (version 0.5.0)

masculinity_survey: Masculinity Survey

Description

This folder contains the data behind the story: "What Do Men Think It Means To Be A Man?" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-do-men-think-it-means-to-be-a-man

Usage

masculinity_survey

Format

A dataset with 189 rows representing answers and 12 variables:

question

the survey question

response

the survey response

overall

the ratio of overall participants who selected this response

age_18_34

the ratio of participants age 18 to 34 who selected this response

age_35_64

the ratio of participants age 35 to 64 who selected this response

age_65_over

the ratio of participants age 65 or over who selected this response

white_yes

the ratio of overall white participants who selected this response

white_no

the ratio of overall non-white participants who selected this response

children_yes

the ratio of participants who have child(ren) who selected this response

children_no

the ratio of participants who do not have children who selected this response

straight_yes

the ratio of straight participants who selected this response

straight_no

the ratio of non-straight participants who selected this response

Examples

# NOT RUN {
library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
library(tidyr)
library(stringr)

# Data wrangling
masculinity_tidy <- masculinity_survey %>%
  # Narrow down rows to those pertaining to first question of survey:
  filter(question == 'In general, how masculine or "manly" do you feel?') %>%
  # Eliminate columns not relating to sexual orientaiton:
  select(-c(age_18_34, age_35_64, age_65_over, white_yes, white_no, children_yes,
            children_no, overall)) %>%
  # Convert data frame to tidy data (long) format:
  gather(key = sexuality, value = ratio_by_sexuality, -c(question, response) )

# Visualize results
ggplot(data = masculinity_tidy, aes(x = response, y = ratio_by_sexuality, fill = sexuality)) +
  geom_bar(stat="identity", position = 'dodge') +
  labs(x = "Response", y = "Proportion", labs = "Sexuality",
       title = "In general, how masculine or 'manly' do you feel?")
# }