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ANES 1968 Feeling Thermometers and Voting Data

Source: R/data.R
ANES1968.Rd

The ANES1968 dataset includes feeling thermometers data and information on whether respondents reported voting in the 1968 elections, as well as their reported presidential vote choice.

Format

A dataframe with several variables:

vote.turnout

Binary variable indicating whether the respondent reported voting in the 1968 election (1 = voted, 0 = did not vote).

presidential.vote

Categorical variable representing the respondent's reported presidential vote choice (1 = Humphrey, 2 = Nixon, 3 = Wallace).

T

A matrix of feeling thermometers ranging from 0 ("very cold or unfavorable") to 100 ("very warm or favorable").

Source

American National Election Studies (ANES) 1968 dataset.

Details

The feeling thermometers measure respondents' attitudes towards various political figures and entities, with higher values indicating warmer or more favorable feelings. Values of 98, 99, and 100 were recoded in the original ANES file as 97, allowing these values to represent refused or missing responses.

The ANES1968 dataset is a valuable resource for analyzing voter behavior and sentiment during the 1968 U.S. presidential election.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
data(ANES1968)
summary(ANES1968)
} # }