japan                  package:MNP                  R Documentation

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

     This dataset gives voters' preferences of political parties in
     Japan on the 0 (least preferred) - 100 (most preferred) scale. It
     is based on the 1995 survey data of 418 individual voters. The
     data also include the sex, education level, and age of the voters.
     The survey allowed voters to choose among four parties: Liberal
     Democratic Party (LDP), New Frontier Party (NFP), Sakigake (SKG),
     and Japanese Communist Party (JCP).

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

     data(japan)

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

     A data frame containing the following 7 variables for 418
     observations.

       LDP        numeric  preference for Liberal Democratic Party  0 - 100
       NFP        numeric  preference for New Frontier Party        0 - 100
       SKG        numeric  preference for Sakigake                  0 - 100
       JCP        numeric  preference for Japanese Communist Party  0 - 100
       gender     factor   gender of each voter                     'male' or 'female'
       education  numeric  levels of education for each voter       
       age        numeric  age of each voter                        

