Liberal-Conservative 7-point scales from the 1980 National Election Study.
Includes (in order) self-placement, and rankings of Carter, Reagan, Kennedy,
Anderson, Republican party, Democratic Party. Stored as a matrix of integers.
The numbers 0, 8, and 9 are considered to be missing values.
An object of class matrix (inherits from array) with 888 rows and 7 columns.
Source
American National Election Studies.
This dataset was originally part of the basicspace package under the same name ("LC1980").
Examples
data(LC1980)
LC1980[LC1980 == 0 | LC1980 == 8 | LC1980 == 9] <- NA
head(LC1980)
#> Self Carter Reagan Kennedy Anderson Republicans Democrats
#> 1 6 2 6 1 7 5 5
#> 8 6 4 6 4 7 6 4
#> 9 6 3 6 3 3 6 2
#> 10 4 6 4 3 3 5 4
#> 11 5 7 2 5 5 7 5
#> 13 7 6 6 2 5 7 4
