This page contains a summary of the data available in the AuSSA 2016 - Role of Government.
To make sense of the variable names - please refer to the questionnaire which is available to download from the ADA
The complete data set is also available to download from the ADA
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
warning = TRUE, # show warnings during codebook generation
message = TRUE, # show messages during codebook generation
error = TRUE, # do not interrupt codebook generation in case of errors,
# usually better for debugging
echo = TRUE # show R code
)
ggplot2::theme_set(ggplot2::theme_bw())
library(codebook)
# to import an SPSS file from the same folder uncomment and edit the line below
library(haven)
library(sjlabelled)
codebook_data <- read_spss("aussa2016codebook.sav")
#Recode can't choose to be sequential
for (col in colnames(codebook_data)) {
if (!is.null(get_labels(codebook_data[[col]],attr.only=TRUE))) {
labs <- get_labels(codebook_data[[col]],attr.only=TRUE)
vals <- get_values(codebook_data[[col]])
locator <- grep('choose',labs,ignore.case=TRUE)
if (length(locator) != 0) {
codebook_data[[col]] <- remove_labels(codebook_data[[col]],labels = labs[locator])
mval <- max(vals[-locator]) + 1
codebook_data[[col]] <- add_labels(codebook_data[[col]], labels = setNames(mval,labs[locator]))
codebook_data[[col]][codebook_data[[col]]==vals[locator]] <- mval
}
}
}
# for Stata
# codebook_data <- rio::import("mydata.dta")
# for CSV
# codebook_data <- rio::import("mydata.csv")
# omit the following lines, if your missing values are already properly labelled
codebook_data <- detect_missing(codebook_data,
only_labelled = TRUE, # only labelled values are autodetected as
# missing
negative_values_are_missing = FALSE, # negative values are missing values
ninety_nine_problems = TRUE, # 99/999 are missing values, if they
# are more than 5 MAD from the median
)
# If you are not using formr, the codebook package needs to guess which items
# form a scale. The following line finds item aggregates with names like this:
# scale = scale_1 + scale_2R + scale_3R
# identifying these aggregates allows the codebook function to
# automatically compute reliabilities.
# However, it will not reverse items automatically.
#codebook_data <- detect_scales(codebook_data)
metadata(codebook_data)$name <- "Australian Survey of Social Attitudes 2016 - Role of Government"
metadata(codebook_data)$description <- "The Australian Survey of Social Attitudes (AuSSA) is Australia’s main source of data for the scientific study of the social attitudes, beliefs and opinions of Australians, how they change over time, and how they compare with other societies. The survey is used to help researchers better understand how Australians think and feel about their lives. It produces important information about the changing views and attitudes of Australians as we move through the 21st century. Similar surveys are run in other countries, so data from the AuSSA also allows us to compare Australia with countries all over the world. The aims of the survey are to discover: the range of Australians’ views on topics that are important to all of us; how these views differ for people in different circumstances; how they have changed over the past quarter century; and how they compare with people in other countries. AuSSA is also the Australian component of the International Social Survey Project (ISSP). The ISSP is a cross-national collaboration on surveys covering important topics. Each year, survey researchers in some 40 countries each do a national survey using the same questions. The ISSP focuses on a special topic each year, repeating that topic from time to time. The topic for 2016 is 'Role of Government'. This is the fifth time this has been the topic of the survey, having previously been the theme for the survey in 1985, 1990, 1996, and 2006."
metadata(codebook_data)$identifier <- "doi:10.26193/HAQ1UX"
metadata(codebook_data)$datePublished <- "2018-09-03"
metadata(codebook_data)$creator <- list(
"@type" = "Person",
givenName = "Adam", familyName = "Zammit",
email = "adam.zammit@acspri.org.au",
affiliation = list("@type" = "Organization",
name = "Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated (ACSPRI)"))
metadata(codebook_data)$citation <- "ACSPRI (2021). AuSSA 2016 Codebook."
metadata(codebook_data)$url <- "https://www.acspri.org.au/sites/acspri.org.au/files/aussa2016codebook.html"
metadata(codebook_data)$temporalCoverage <- "2016"
metadata(codebook_data)$spatialCoverage <- "Australia"
codebook(codebook_data)
Dataset name: Australian Survey of Social Attitudes 2016 - Role of Government
The Australian Survey of Social Attitudes (AuSSA) is Australia’s main source of data for the scientific study of the social attitudes, beliefs and opinions of Australians, how they change over time, and how they compare with other societies. The survey is used to help researchers better understand how Australians think and feel about their lives. It produces important information about the changing views and attitudes of Australians as we move through the 21st century. Similar surveys are run in other countries, so data from the AuSSA also allows us to compare Australia with countries all over the world. The aims of the survey are to discover: the range of Australians’ views on topics that are important to all of us; how these views differ for people in different circumstances; how they have changed over the past quarter century; and how they compare with people in other countries. AuSSA is also the Australian component of the International Social Survey Project (ISSP). The ISSP is a cross-national collaboration on surveys covering important topics. Each year, survey researchers in some 40 countries each do a national survey using the same questions. The ISSP focuses on a special topic each year, repeating that topic from time to time. The topic for 2016 is ‘Role of Government’. This is the fifth time this has been the topic of the survey, having previously been the theme for the survey in 1985, 1990, 1996, and 2006.
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Date published: 2018-09-03
Creator:
name | value |
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@type | Person |
givenName | Adam |
familyName | Zammit |
adam.zammit@acspri.org.au | |
affiliation | Organization , Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated (ACSPRI) |
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In general, would you say that people should obey the law without exception, or are there exceptional occasions on which people should follow their consciences even if it means breaking the law? :
20 missing values.
name | label | data_type | n_missing | complete_rate | min | median | max | mean | sd | hist | format.spss |
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A1 | In general, would you say that people should obey the law without exception, or are there exceptional occasions on which people should follow their consciences even if it means breaking the law? : | numeric | 20 | 0.9842147 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1.64154 | 0.5454968 | ▆▁▇▁▁ | F1.0 |
name | value |
---|---|
Obey the law without exception | 1 |
Follow conscience on occasions | 2 |
Cant choose | 3 |
There are many ways people or organisations can protest against a government action they strongly oppose.Please show which you think should be allowed and which should not be allowed by crossing a box on each line. : Organising public meetings to pro
26 missing values.
name | label | data_type | n_missing | complete_rate | min | median | max | mean | sd | hist | format.spss |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A2A | There are many ways people or organisations can protest against a government action they strongly oppose.Please show which you think should be allowed and which should not be allowed by crossing a box on each line. : Organising public meetings to pro | numeric | 26 | 0.9794791 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1.500403 | 0.8309778 | ▇▃▁▁▁ | F1.0 |
name | value |
---|---|
Definitely | 1 |
Probably | 2 |
Probably not | 3 |
Definitely not | 4 |
Cant choose | 5 |
There are many ways people or organisations can protest against a government action they strongly oppose.Please show which you think should be allowed and which should not be allowed by crossing a box on each line. : Organising protest marches and de