R Dataset / Package sem / Bollen
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Bollen data set which pertains to Bollen's Data on Industrialization and Political Democracy. The Bollen data set is found in the sem R package. You can load the Bollen data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Bollen"). This will load the data into a variable called Bollen. If R says the Bollen data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("sem") 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 Bollen R data set. The size of this file is about 5,734 bytes.
Bollen's Data on Industrialization and Political Democracy
Description
This data set includes four measures of democracy at two points in time, 1960 and 1965, and three measures of industrialization in 1960, for 75 developing countries.
Usage
Bollen
Format
A data frame with 75 observations on the following 11 variables.
y1
-
freedom of the press, 1960
y2
-
freedom of political opposition, 1960
y3
-
fairness of elections, 1960
y4
-
effectivness of elected legislature, 1960
y5
-
freedom of the press, 1965
y6
-
freedom of political opposition, 1965
y7
-
fairness of elections, 1965
y8
-
effectivness of elected legislature, 1965
x1
-
GNP per capita, 1960
x2
-
energy consumption per capita, 1960
x3
-
percentage of labor force in industry, 1960
Details
Variables y1
through y4
are intended to be indicators of the latent variable political democracy in 1960; y5
through y8
indicators of political democracy in 1965; and x1
through x3
indicators of industrialization in 1960.
Source
personal communication from Ken Bollen.
References
Bollen, K. A. (1989) Structural Equations With Latent Variables. Wiley.
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.