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Results of french departmental elections in 2015

Source: R/CoDaImpact-package.R
election.Rd

The data is used by Nguyen et. al (2020) and originally disseminated by the French ministry (Ministère de l'Intérieur et des Outre-Mer). Information about the population characteristics comes from the french national statistics institute (INSEE).

Usage

election

Format

An object of class data.frame with 95 rows and 13 columns.

Source

  • https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/elections-departementales-2015-resultats-par-bureaux-de-vote

  • https://www.insee.fr/fr/accueil

Details

  • left, right, extreme_right: Vote shares during the election grouped into three blocks

  • Age_1839, Age_4064, Age_65plus: Share of the population falling into one of three age categories

  • Educ_BeforeHighschool, Educ_Highschool, Educ_Higher: Share of the population having completed a certain level of education.

  • asset_owner_rate: The proportion of people who own assets

  • income_taxpayer_rate: The proportion of people who pay income tax

  • forgeigner_rate: The proportion of foreigners

References

Nguyen THA, Laurent T, Thomas-Agnan C, Ruiz-Gazen A. Analyzing the impacts of socio-economic factors on French departmental elections with CoDa methods. J Appl Stat. 2020 Dec 9;49(5):1235-1251. doi: 10.1080/02664763.2020.1858274. PMID: 35707505; PMCID: PMC9041641.

Author

Lukas Dargel, Christine Thomas-Agnan