housep88                 package:eco                 R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This data set contains, on a House district level, the percentage
     of the vote for the Democratic House candidate, the percentage of
     the vote for the Democratic presidential candidate (Dukakis), the
     number of voters who voted for a major party candidate in the
     presidential race, and the ratio of voters in the House race
     versus the number who cast a ballot for President.  Eleven (11)
     uncontested races are not included.  Dataset compiled and analyzed
     by Burden and Kimball (1988). Complete dataset and documentation
     available at ICSPR study number 1140.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(housep88)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A data frame containing 5 variables and 424 observations 

       X     numeric  proportion voting for the Democrat in the  presidential race
       Y     numeric  proportion voting for the Democrat in the  House race
       N     numeric  number of major party voters in the presidential contest
       HPCT  numeric  House election turnout divided by presidential election turnout (set to 1 if House turnout exceeds presidential turnout)
       DIST  numeric  4-digit ICPSR state and district code: first 2 digits for the state code, last two digits for the district number (e.g., 2106=IL 6th)

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Burden, Barry C. and David C. Kimball (1988). ``A New Approach To
     Ticket- Splitting.'' {\em The American Political Science Review}.
     vol 92., no. 3, pp. 553-544.

