wvs_immigR Documentation

Attitudes about Immigration in the World Values Survey

Description

A data set on attitudes about immigration for all observations in the third to sixth wave of the World Values Survey. I use these data for in-class illustration.

Usage

wvs_immig

Format

A data frame with 310,388 observations on the following 6 variables.

s002

the World Values Survey wave

s003

the World Values Survey country code

country

the country name

s020

the survey year

uid

a unique identifier for the survey respondent

e143

an attitude about immigration policy in the World Values Survey

Details

1 = "let anyone come". 2 = "as long as jobs are available". 3 = "strict limits". 4 = "Prohibit people from coming" for the e143 variable. See ?wvs_ccodes for more information about naming/identifying countries.