R/gssr-package.R
gss_get_marginals.RdGet marginal summaries for a GSS variable or variables
gss_get_marginals(varnames = "id", data = gss_doc, margin = marginals)The (categorical) variable or variables you want to see marginals for. Can be a character string or a character vector.
The codebook data frame, by default gss_doc, or alternatively the wide panel documentation in gss_panel_docw.
Which margin. Not needed for gss_doc, but one of marginals_1, marginals_2, or marginals_2 when data is gss_panel_docw.
A tibble of marginal distributions from the GSS codebook
Codebook summaries from the gss_doc or gss_panel_docw objects
# \donttest{
data(gss_doc)
gss_get_marginals(varnames = "race")
#> # A tibble: 4 × 6
#> variable percent n value label id
#> <chr> <dbl> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 race 80.3 52033 1 WHITE RACE
#> 2 race 14.2 9187 2 BLACK RACE
#> 3 race 5.5 3594 3 OTHER RACE
#> 4 race 100 64814 NA Total RACE
gss_get_marginals(varnames = c("race", "gender", "fefam"))
#> # A tibble: 12 × 6
#> variable percent n value label id
#> <chr> <dbl> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 race 80.3 52033 1 WHITE RACE
#> 2 race 14.2 9187 2 BLACK RACE
#> 3 race 5.5 3594 3 OTHER RACE
#> 4 race 100 64814 NA Total RACE
#> 5 fefam 8.5 2543 1 STRONGLY AGREE FEFAM
#> 6 fefam 29.9 8992 2 AGREE FEFAM
#> 7 fefam 43.4 13061 3 DISAGREE FEFAM
#> 8 fefam 18.2 5479 4 STRONGLY DISAGREE FEFAM
#> 9 fefam NA 34111 0 IAP FEFAM
#> 10 fefam NA 534 8 DK FEFAM
#> 11 fefam NA 94 9 NA FEFAM
#> 12 fefam 100 64814 NA Total FEFAM
# }