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]