Pew Survey on Energy Sources in 2018

Description

US-based survey on support for expanding six different sources of energy, including solar, wind, offshore drilling, hydrolic fracturing ("fracking"), coal, and nuclear.

Usage

pew_energy_2018

Format

The format is: List of 6 $ solar_panel_farms : List of responses on solar farms. $ wind_turbine_farms : List of responses on wind turbine farms. $ offshore_drilling : List of responses on offshore drilling. $ hydrolic_fracturing : List of responses on hydrolic fracturing. $ coal_mining : List of responses on coal mining. $ nuclear_power_plants: List of responses on nuclear.

Details

We did not have access to individual responses in original dataset, so we took the published percentages and backed out the breakdown

Source

https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2018/05/14/majorities-see-government-efforts-to-protect-the-environment-as-insufficient/

Examples

data(pew_energy_2018)
lapply(pew_energy_2018, head)
lapply(pew_energy_2018, length)
lapply(pew_energy_2018, table)
Prop <- function(x) {
  table(x) / length(x)
}
lapply(pew_energy_2018, Prop)