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multi: The 1991 National Race and Politics Survey

Description

This dataset is a subset of the 1991 National Race and Politics Survey and contains a list experiment with two sensitive items. The main questions read as follows: Now I'm going to read you four things that sometimes make people angry or upset. After I read all (three/four), just tell me HOW MANY of them upset you. (I don't want to know which ones, just how many.) (1) "the federal government increasing the tax on gasoline;" (2) "professional athletes getting million-dollar-plus salaries;" (3) "large corporations polluting the environment;" (4) "a black family moving next door to you."

Arguments

Format

A data frame containing the following 6 variables for 1795 observations.

ynumericthe number of items that make respondents angry0 - 4
southnumericwhether or not a respondents live in a southern state0 - 1
malenumericwhether or not a respondent is male0 - 1
collegenumericwhether or not a respondent attended some college0 - 1
agenumericage of a respondent divided by 10treat

Details

where the last item is presented only with the treatment group and the control list only contains the first three items.

The second sensitive item replaces item (4) with (4) "black leaders asking the government for affirmative action."

Treatment status one (treat == 1) is the "black family" item and status two is the "affirmative action" item.