vote2

Description

Wooldridge Source: See VOTE1.RAW Data loads lazily.

Usage

data('vote2')

Format

A data.frame with 186 observations on 26 variables:

• state: state postal code

• district: U.S. Congressional district

• democ: =1 if incumbent democrat

• vote90: inc. share two-party vote, 1990

• vote88: inc. share two-party vote, 1988

• inexp90: inc. camp. expends., 1990

• chexp90: chl. camp. expends., 1990

• inexp88: inc. camp. expends., 1988

• chexp88: chl. camp. expends., 1988

• prtystr: percent vote pres., same party, 1988

• rptchall: =1 if a repeat challenger

• tenure: years in H.R.

• lawyer: =1 if law degree

• linexp90: log(inexp90)

• lchexp90: log(chexp90)

• linexp88: log(inexp88)

• lchexp88: log(chexp88)

• incshr90: 100*(inexp90/(inexp90+chexp90))

• incshr88: 100*(inexp88/(inexp88+chexp88))

• cvote: vote90 - vote88

• clinexp: linexp90 - linexp88

• clchexp: lchexp90 - lchexp88

• cincshr: incshr90 - incshr88

• win88: =1 by definition

• win90: =1 if inc. wins, 1990

• cwin: win90 - win88

Notes

These are panel data, at the Congressional district level, collected for the 1988 and 1990 U.S. House of Representative elections. Of course, much more recent data are available, possibly even in electronic form.

Used in Text: pages 335-336, 478, 699

Source

https://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781111531041

Examples

 str(vote2)