lavaan.survey (version 1.1.3.1)

ess4.gb: British attitudes towards the welfare state.

Description

European Social Survey (ESS) data from the 2008 (fourth) round in the United Kingdom. The data are from a questionnaire on "what the responsibilities of governments should or should not be". These were factor-analyzed by Roosma, Gelissen, and van Oorschot (2013). Also included are complex survey design variables.

Usage

data(ess4.gb)

Format

A data frame with 2273 observations of 13 variables.

Source

This dataset was retrieved from http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/data/download.html?r=4 and converted to an R dataset.

References

Jowell, R., Roberts, C., Fitzgerald, R., & Eva, G. (2007). Measuring attitudes cross-nationally: Lessons from the european social survey. SAGE.

Oberski, D.L. (2014). lavaan.survey: An R Package for Complex Survey Analysis of Structural Equation Models. Journal of Statistical Software, 57(1), 1-27. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v57/i01/.

Roosma F., Gelissen J., van Oorschot W. (2013). "The Multidimensionality of Welfare State Attitudes: A European Cross-National Study." Social Indicators Research, 113(1), 235-255.

See Also

lavaan.survey

Examples

  data(ess4.gb)
  
  # Two-factor model based on Roosma et al (2013).
  model.cfa <-    
    "range =~ gvjbevn + gvhlthc + gvslvol + gvslvue + gvcldcr + gvpdlwk
     goals =~ sbprvpv  +  sbeqsoc  +  sbcwkfm"
  
  # Fit the model using lavaan
  fit.cfa.ml <- lavaan(model.cfa, data = ess4.gb, estimator = "MLM",
    meanstructure = TRUE, int.ov.free = TRUE, auto.var = TRUE, 
    auto.fix.first = TRUE, auto.cov.lv.x = TRUE)
  fit.cfa.ml
  
  # Define the complex survey design for ESS 4 in the UK
  des.gb <- svydesign(ids = ~psu, strata = ~stratval, weights = ~dweight, 
    data = ess4.gb)
  
  # Fit the two-factor model while taking the survey design into account.
  fit.cfa.surv <- lavaan.survey(fit.cfa.ml, survey.design = des.gb)
  fit.cfa.surv