Abortion Attitudes (ANES, 2012)

Description

A simple data set for in-class illustration about how to estimate and interpret interactive relationships. The data here are deliberately minimal for that end.

Usage

anes_prochoice

Format

A data frame with 5914 observations on the following 14 variables.

version

version identifier from ANES

caseid

time-series case identifier from ANES

health

oppose/"NFNO"/favor abortion if pregnancy would hurt woman

fatal

oppose/"NFNO"/favor abortion if pregnancy would cause woman to die

incest

oppose/"NFNO"/favor abortion if pregnancy was caused by incest

rape

oppose/"NFNO"/favor abortion if pregnancy was caused by rape

bd

oppose/"NFNO"/favor abortion if fetus would be born with serious birth defect

fin

oppose/"NFNO"/favor abortion if having child would impose financial hardship

sex

oppose/"NFNO"/favor abortion if the child will not be the sex the woman wants

choice

oppose/"NFNO"/favor abortion if woman chooses to have one

pid

respondent's partisanship (Democrat, Independent, Republican)

knowspeaker

was the respondent able to correctly identify the Speaker of the House (John Boehner)

addchoice

an additive scale of the abortion scores

lchoice

a continuous latent scale of pro-choice scores (from a simple graded response model)

Details

"NFNO" = "Neither Favor Nor Oppose". All abortion prompts are on a 0-2 scale where 0 is oppose, 1 is "NFNO", and 2 is favor. The respondent's party identification is on a similar scale where 0 = "Democrat", 1 = "Independent", and 2 = "Republican". The additive scale of abortion scores has a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 16.

Source

Data come from ANES's (2012) time series.