neighbor               package:faraway               R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Subjects were asked questions in a study of neighborly help.
     Questions below are a subset of the full study.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(neighbor)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A data frame with 181 observations on the following 8 variables.

     _l_o_n_g_l_i_v_e About how long have you lived where you do now? Ans is a
          factor with levels '<6mos' '6-12mos' '1-3yrs' '3-10yrs'
          '10yrs'

     _w_h_e_r_e_b_f_r Where were you living before you moved to your present
          house? Ans is a factor with levels 'same' 'Exeter' 'Devon'
          'Britain' 'Abroad'

     _h_o_w_n_b_l_y How neighborly do you think the area where you now live
          is? Ans is a factor with levels 'Vunfriendly' 'NVfriendly'
          'Average' 'FFriendly' 'VFriendly'

     _k_n_o_w_n_a_m_e Roughly how many people in your street, or in the streets
          just  near you, do you know the names of? Ans is a factor
          with levels 'none' '1-5' '6-20' '20+'

     _c_a_l_l_n_a_m_e How many of those people (not counting children) would
          you call by  their first names? Ans is a factor with levels
          'none' '1-5' '6-20' '20+'

     _a_g_e a factor with levels '-18' '18-30' '31-50' '51-65' '65+'

     _d_i_s_t_r_i_c_t a factor with levels '1' '2' '3' '4'

     _s_e_x a factor with levels 'female' 'male'

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     Exeter is a city in the county of Devon which is in Britain. The
     four districts can be briefly described as follows. District 1 was
     a long-established residential area near the city centre, with
     housing dating from the late nineteenth century. Originally
     working class, it now has a considerable middle class population
     with some student and other temporary accommodation. District 2
     was a working-class housing estate dating from the 1930s, with
     mainly rented accommodation but some owner occupation. District 3
     was the oldest part of a more recently developed, mainly
     middle-class, almost exclusively owner-occupied estate, dating
     from the 1960s. District 4 was the most recently developed part of
     a more sought-after middle-class residential area, with smaller
     but almost entirely owner-occupied properties dating from the
     1970s and 1980s.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     P. Webley & S. Lea 1993, Human Relations 46, 65-76.

