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Voters' Preferences of Political Parties in Japan (1995)

Description

This dataset gives voters' preferences of political parties (Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), New Frontier Party (NFP), Sakigake (SKG), and Japanese Communist Party (JCP)) 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.

Usage

data(japan)

Format

A matrix containing the following 7 variables for 418 observations.

LDP preference for Liberal Democratic Party 0 - 100
NFP preference for New Frontier Party 0 - 100
SKG preference for Sakigake 0 - 100
JCP preference for Japanse Communist Party 0 - 100
sex sex of each voter 1 = male, 2 = female
education levels of education for each voter
age age of each voter

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