brexit {DATAstudio}R Documentation

Brexit Poll Tracker

Description

The data consist of 267 polls conducted before the June 23 2016 EU referendum, which took place in the UK.

Usage

brexit

Format

A dataframe with 272 observations on six variables.

leave, stay, undecided

Percentage in favor of each option.

date

Date on which the poll was conducted.

pollster

Institution conducting the poll.

size

Number of polled subjects.

Source

Financial Times (FT) Brexit poll tracker.

References

de Carvalho, M. and Martos, G. (2020). Brexit: Tracking and disentangling the sentiment towards leaving the EU. International Journal of Forecasting, 36, 1128-1137.

Examples

## Leave-stay plot (de Carvalho and Martos, 2018; Fig. 1)
data(brexit)
attach(brexit)
oldpar <- par(pty = "s")
plot(leave[(leave > stay)], stay[(leave > stay)],
     xlim = c(22, 66), ylim = c(22, 66), pch = 16, col = "red",
     xlab = "Leave", ylab = "Stay")
points(leave[(stay > leave)], stay[(stay > leave)],
       pch = 16, col = "blue")
points(leave[(stay == leave)], stay[(stay == leave)],
       pch = 24)
abline(a = 0, b = 1, lwd = 3)
par(oldpar)

[Package DATAstudio version 1.2.1 Index]