womensrole               package:HSAUR               R Documentation

_W_o_m_e_n_s _R_o_l_e _i_n _S_o_c_i_e_t_y

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Data from a survey from 1974 / 1975 asking both female and male
     responders about their opinion on the statement: Women should take
     care of running their homes and leave running the    country up to
     men.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data("womensrole")

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A data frame with 42 observations on the following 4 variables.

     '_e_d_u_c_a_t_i_o_n' years of education.

     '_s_e_x' a factor with levels 'Male' and 'Female'.

     '_a_g_r_e_e' number of subjects in agreement with the statement.

     '_d_i_s_a_g_r_e_e' number of subjects in disagreement with the  statement.

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     The data are from Haberman (1973) and also given in Collett
     (2003). The questions here are whether the response of men and
     women  differ.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     S. J. Haberman (1973), The analysis of residuals in
     cross-classificed tables. _Biometrics_, *29*, 205-220.

     D. Collett (2003), _Modelling Binary Data_. Chapman and Hall /
     CRC, London. 2nd edition.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

       data("womensrole", package = "HSAUR")
       summary(subset(womensrole, sex == "Female"))
       summary(subset(womensrole, sex == "Male"))

