R Dataset / Package Stat2Data / InsuranceVote
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the InsuranceVote data set which pertains to InsuranceVote. The InsuranceVote data set is found in the Stat2Data R package. You can load the InsuranceVote data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("InsuranceVote"). This will load the data into a variable called InsuranceVote. If R says the InsuranceVote data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Stat2Data") 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 InsuranceVote R data set. The size of this file is about 16,186 bytes.
InsuranceVote
Description
Congressional votes
Format
A dataset with 435 observations on the following 9 variables.
Party | Party affilication: D=Democrat or R=Republican |
Dist. | Congressional district (State-Number) |
InsVote | Vote on the health insurance bill: 1=yes or 0=no |
Rep | Indicator for Republicans |
Dem | Indicator for Democrats |
Private | Percentage of non-senior citizens in district with private health insurance |
Public | Percentage of non-senior citizens in district with public health insurance |
Uninsured | Percentage of non-senior citizens in district with no health insurance |
Obama | District winner in 2008 presidential election: 1=Obama 0=McCain |
Details
On 7 November 2009 the U.S. House of Representatives voted, by the narrow margin of 220-215, for a bill to enact health insurance reform. Most Democrats voted yes while almost all Republicans voted no. This dataset contains data for each of the 435 representatives.
Source
Insurance data are from the American Community Survey (http://www.census.gov/acs/www/data_documentation/data_main/). Roll call of congressional votes on this bill can be found at http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll887.xml.
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.
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