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This dataset contains a 10% random sample of individuals from each cable system cluster. It specifically includes matched pairs 1–3, which correspond to 7 out of the 85 cable systems. The original dataset is derived from a cluster-randomized experiment of Rock the Vote TV advertisements.

Usage

GV_data

Format

A data.frame with 248 rows and 7 columns.

  • age Age of participant

  • vote_04 Outcome variable indicating whether participant voted

  • tv_company Cable system serving participant's residential area

  • treatment Binary variable denoting treatment assignment

  • pairs A numeric indicator for the strata or matched pair group to which a cable system belongs (1-3)

  • population_size Total population size of residential area served by cable system

  • sample_size Number of individuals sampled from the cable system cluster

Details

The fuller Green-Vavreck dataset that this derives from bears a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license (v3.0) and is housed in Yale University's Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ID: D005).

References

Green, Donald P. & Lynn Vavreck (2008) "Analysis of Cluster-Randomized Experiments: A Comparison of Alternative Estimation Approaches." Political Analysis 16(2):138-152.