World Values Surveys

Description

Data from the World Values Surveys 1995-1997 for Australia, Norway, Sweden, and the United States.

Usage

WVS

Format

A data frame with 5381 observations on the following 6 variables.

poverty

“Do you think that what the government is doing for people in poverty in this country is about the right amount, too much, or too little?” (ordered): Too Little, About Right, Too Much

.

religion

Member of a religion: no or yes.

degree

Held a university degree: no or yes.

country

Australia, Norway, Sweden, or USA.

age

in years.

gender

male or female.

References

J. Fox and R. Andersen (2006) Effect displays for multinomial and proportional-odds logit models. Sociological Methodology 36, 225–255.

Examples

summary(WVS)

require(splines)  # for bs()
wvs <- polr(poverty ~ gender + country*(religion + degree + bs(age, 4)), data=WVS)

plot(effect("country*bs(age,4)", wvs, xlevels=list(age=18:83),
  given.values=c(gendermale=0.5)), rug=FALSE)

plot(effect("country*bs(age,4)", wvs, xlevels=list(age=18:83),
  given.values=c(gendermale=0.5)), rug=FALSE, style="stacked")

plot(effect("country*bs(age,4)", wvs, xlevels=list(age=18:83),
  given.values=c(gendermale=0.5), latent=TRUE), rug=FALSE)