R Dataset / Package DAAG / socsupport
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the socsupport data set which pertains to Social Support Data. The socsupport data set is found in the DAAG R package. You can load the socsupport data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("socsupport"). This will load the data into a variable called socsupport. If R says the socsupport data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("DAAG") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the socsupport R data set. The size of this file is about 11,652 bytes.
Social Support Data
Description
Data from a survey on social and other kinds of support.
Usage
socsupport
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
- gender
-
a factor with levels
female
,male
- age
-
age, in years, with levels
18-20
,21-24
,25-30
,31-40
,40+
- country
-
a factor with levels
australia
,other
- marital
-
a factor with levels
married
,other
,single
- livewith
-
a factor with levels
alone
,friends
,other
,parents
,partner
,residences
- employment
-
a factor with levels
employed fulltime
,employed part-time
,govt assistance
,other
,parental support
- firstyr
-
a factor with levels
first year
,other
- enrolment
-
a factor with levels
full-time
,part-time
,<NA>
- emotional
-
summary of 5 questions on emotional support availability
- emotionalsat
-
summary of 5 questions on emotional support satisfaction
- tangible
-
summary of 4 questions on availability of tangible support
- tangiblesat
-
summary of 4 questions on satisfaction with tangible support
- affect
-
summary of 3 questions on availability of affectionate support sources
- affectsat
-
summary of 3 questions on satisfaction with affectionate support sources
- psi
-
summary of 3 questions on availability of positive social interaction
- psisat
-
summary of 3 questions on satisfaction with positive social interaction
- esupport
-
summary of 4 questions on extent of emotional support sources
- psupport
-
summary of 4 questions on extent of practical support sources
- supsources
-
summary of 4 questions on extent of social support sources (formerly, socsupport)
- BDI
-
Score on the Beck depression index (summary of 21 questions)
Source
Melissa Manning, Psychology, Australian National University
Examples
attach(socsupport)not.na <- apply(socsupport[,9:19], 1, function(x)!any(is.na(x))) ss.pr1 <- princomp(as.matrix(socsupport[not.na, 9:19]), cor=TRUE) pairs(ss.pr1$scores[,1:3]) sort(-ss.pr1$scores[,1])# Minus the largest value appears first pause()not.na[36] <- FALSE ss.pr <- princomp(as.matrix(socsupport[not.na, 9:19]), cor=TRUE) summary(ss.pr)# Examine the contribution of the components pause()# We now regress BDI on the first six principal components: ss.lm <- lm(BDI[not.na] ~ ss.pr$scores[, 1:6], data=socsupport) summary(ss.lm)$coef pause()ss.pr$loadings[,1] plot(BDI[not.na] ~ss.pr$scores[ ,1], col=as.numeric(gender), pch=as.numeric(gender),xlab ="1st principal component", ylab="BDI") topleft <- par()$usr[c(1,4)] legend(topleft[1], topleft[2], col=1:2, pch=1:2, legend=levels(gender))
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.