A tibble containing information on the variables in the GSS Cumulative Data File.
Usage
data(gss_dict)Format
A tibble.
- `pos`
Column-index position of the variable in `gss_all`. (Integer.)
- `variable`
The name of the variable. (Character.)
- `label`
The variable's label. 'r' means 'Respondent'. (Character.)
- `missing`
Number of missing observations. (Integer.)
- `var_doc_label`
The variable's label, per the Berkeley SDA web pages. Should correspond directly to `label`. (Character)
- `value_labels`
The value labels and associated numeric values for the variable. Numeric values are given in square brackets. (Character.)
- `var_text`
The text of the question asked of the respondent. (Character.)
- `years`
Which years the question was asked. This information is stored as a tibble in a list column. The tibble contains a column for the `year` and a TRUE/FALSE coumn for `present`. (List.)
- `var_yrtab`
Crosstab of responses by year. Stored in a list-column. The tibbles contain `year` values in the rows and value labels across their columns, with response freqencies in the cells as counts. (List.)
- `var_ballots`
Crosstab of ballots by year. Stored in a list-column. The tibbles contain `year` values in the rows and `iap` and the ballots labels across the columns. Counts in `iap` mean the question was not asked that year, or the ballot system was not used. Cells are the number of respondents, if any. (Grouped tibble.)
- `col_type`
The column type of the variable in `gss_all`. (Character.)
- `var_type`
The variable type of the variable in `gss_all`. (Character.)
- `var_na_codes`
The missing value codes associated with the variable in `gss_all`. (Character.)