Socatt {mlmRev} | R Documentation

## Social Attitudes Survey

### Description

These data come from the British Social Attitudes (BSA) Survey started in 1983. The eligible persons were all adults aged 18 or over living in private households in Britain. The data consist of completed results of 264 respondents out of 410.

### Usage

    data(Socatt)

### Format

A data frame with 1056 observations on the following 9 variables.

district
  District ID - a factor
respond
  Respondent code (within district) - a factor
year
  A factor with levels `1983`, `1984`, `1985`, and `1986`
numpos
  An ordered factor giving the number of positive answers to seven questions.
party
  Political party chosen - a factor. Levels are `conservative`, `labour`, `Lib/SDP/Alliance`, `others`, and `none`.
class
  Self assessed social class - a factor. Levels are `middle`, `upper working`, and `lower working`.
gender
  Respondent's sex. (1=male, 2=female)
age
  Age in years
religion
  Religion - a factor. Levels are `Roman Catholic`, `Protestant/Church of England`, `others`, and `none`.

### Details

These data are provided at http://multilevel.ioe.ac.uk/softrev/ as an example of multilevel data with a multinomial response. Results from several multilevel software packages are provided at this site.

### Source

http://multilevel.ioe.ac.uk/softrev/socatt.htm

### References

McGrath, K. and Waterton, J. (1986). British Social Attitudes 1983-1986 panel survey. London, Social and Community Planning Research.

### Examples

    str(Socatt)
    summary(Socatt)

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