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race: The 1991 National Race and Politics Survey

Description

This dataset is a subset of the 1991 National Race and Politics Survey and contains the item count technique or the list experiment. The main question reads 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 1213 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.