japan                  package:MNP                  R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This dataset gives voters' preferences of political parties
     (Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), New Frontier Party (NFP),
     Sakigake (SKG), and Japanese Communist Party (JCP)) 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 and age of those voters.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(japan)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A matrix 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                        

