japan                  package:MNP                  R Documentation

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     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 chose 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        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                        

