countries <- readr::read_rds("https://github.com/Sociology-FA-CU/applied-regression-r/raw/main/data/countries.rds")
#OR
countries <- read.csv("https://github.com/Sociology-FA-CU/applied-regression-r/raw/main/data/countries.csv")Here you can find datasets used throughout the course. I recommend downloading the data in RDS format, since it contains metadata like ordering of ordinal variables. Click on the name to expand.
Countries
Small datasets on various economic and social indicators of European countries.
You can download the dataset using:
Alternatively, you can download the data from GitHubt in rds or csv formats.
| Variable | Label | Source |
|---|---|---|
| country | Country name | |
| code | Two digit coutry code | |
| gdp | GDP in the milions of EUR (2018) | Eurostat |
| population | Country population on the 1.1.2018 | Eurostat |
| area | Area of the country | CIA factbook |
| eu_member | Is the country a EU member? (2019) | European Union |
| postsoviet | Was the country a member of the Eastern block | Wikipedia |
| life_exp | Life expectancy at birth (2017) | UN |
| uni_prc | % of people with university education between 15-64 years (2018) | Eurostat |
| poverty_risk | % of people in risk of poverty (2017) | Eurostat |
| material_dep | % of people in material deprivation, 3 or less items (2017) | Eurostat |
| hdi | Human development index (2018) | UN |
| foundation_date | Date of founding | Wikipedia |
| maj_belief | Biggest religious group (2018) | Pew Researcher Center |
United Nations
This is United Nations country level data from 1998, originally used by John Fox in his book Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models.
un <- readr::read_rds("https://github.com/Sociology-FA-CU/applied-regression-r/raw/main/data/united-nations.rds")
#OR
un <- read.csv("https://github.com/Sociology-FA-CU/applied-regression-r/raw/main/data/united-nations.csv")The original data can be downloaded in .txt format here (right click and choose Save link as…). The description of the data here.
Czech Voter Turnout 2017
Aggregated data on the voter turnout by age in the Czech 2017 parliamentary elections from the 8th round of the European Social Survey.
You can download the dataset using:
turnout <- readr::read_rds("https://github.com/Sociology-FA-CU/applied-regression-r/raw/main/data/vote-2017-parliament.rds")
#OR
turnout <- read.csv("https://github.com/Sociology-FA-CU/applied-regression-r/raw/main/data/vote-2017-parliament.csv")
Teachers Beauty and Ratings (Hamermesh & Parker 2005)
The data are gathered from end of semester student evaluations for 463 courses taught by a sample of 94 professors from the University of Texas at Austin. In addition, six students rate the professors’ physical appearance. Originally published in Hamermesh & Parker (2005).
teachers <- readr::read_csv("https://vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets/csv/openintro/evals.csv")
House Prices in Ames, Iowa (De Cock, 2011))
A data set from De Cock (2011) has 82 fields were recorded for 2,930 properties in Ames IA. This version is from tidymodels package, which in turn copies from the AmesHousing package but does not include a few quality columns that appear to be outcomes rather than predictors. Variable description can be found here.
ames <- readr::read_rds("https://github.com/Sociology-FA-CU/applied-regression-r/raw/main/data/ames.rds")
#OR
ames <- readr::read_csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sociology-FA-CU/applied-regression-r/main/data/ames.csv")