Survey data containing questions on support for various combatants during wartime.

afghan

Format

A data frame with 2754 rows and 11 variables:

province

character: province where the respondent lives

district

character: district where the respondent lives

village.id

integer: ID of the village where the respondent lives

age

integer: age of the respondent

educ.years

integer: years of education of the respondent

employed

integer: whether the respondent is employed

income

character: monthly income of the respondent (five levels)

violent.exp.ISAF

integer: whether the respondent experienced violence by ISAF

violent.exp.taliban

integer: whether the respondent experienced violence by the Taliban

list.group

character: randomly assigned group for the list experiment (control, ISAF, taliban)

list.response

integer: response to the list experiment question (0–4)

Details

See QSS Table 3.1.

References

  • Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press. URL.

  • Jason Lyall, Graeme Blair, and Kosuke Imai (2013) “Explaining support for combatants during wartime: A survey experiment in Afghanistan.” American Political Science Review, vol. 107, no. 4 (November), pp. 679–705. doi: 10.1017/S0003055413000403

  • Graeme Blair, Kosuke Imai, and Jason Lyall (2014) “Comparing and combining list and endorsement experiments: Evidence from Afghanistan.” American Journal of Political Science, vol. 58, no. 4 (October), pp. 1043–1063. doi: 10.1111/ajps.12086