Description

Data are drawn from the 2011 Canadian National Election Study, including a question on banning abortion and variables related to the sampling design.

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A data frame with 2231 observations on the following 9 variables.

id

Household ID number.

province

a factor with (alphabetical) levels AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, NS, ON, PE, QC, SK; the sample was stratified by province.

population

population of the respondent's province, number over age 17.

weight

weight sample to size of population, taking into account unequal sampling probabilities by province and household size.

gender

a factor with levels Female, Male.

abortion

attitude toward abortion, a factor with levels No, Yes; answer to the question "Should abortion be banned?"

importance

importance of religion, a factor with (alphabetical) levels not, notvery, somewhat, very; answer to the question, "In your life, would you say that religion is very important, somewhat important, not very important, or not important at all?"

education

a factor with (alphabetical) levels bachelors (Bachelors degree), college (community college or technical school), higher (graduate degree), HS (high-school graduate), lessHS (less than high-school graduate), somePS (some post-secondary).

urban

place of residence, a factor with levels rural, urban.

Details

This is an extract from the data set for the 2011 Canadian National Election Study distributed by the Institute for Social Research, York University.

References

Fournier, P., Cutler, F., Soroka, S., and Stolle, D. (2013). Canadian Election Study 2011: Study documentation. Technical report, Canadian Opinion Research Archive, Queen's University, Kingson,Ontario.

Northrup, D. (2012). The 2011 Canadian Election Survey: Technical documention. Technical report, Institute for Social Research, York University, Toronto, Ontario.

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