Multilevel Modeling for Social Sciences
Final Project
This note describes one of the data sets that you can choose to use for the end-of-course project report.
Using data from a Eurobarometer survey conducted in 2016, write a report of up to 3000 words on how social and demographic factors are related to an individual’s attitude towards whether their country benefits (or would benefit) from EU membership (variable euben). You may do this in any way that you choose, but the questions below might prove useful to structure your thinking. You should perform analysis using Noteable (or R), but you should extract appropriately formatted results and present these in Word, submitting your final report in either Word or as a PDF. You should use relevant literature to inform your model and interpretation of results.
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Questions to structure thinking
1. How do you wish to treat the variable euben? You should recode it to a binary variable explaining what you did and why, reflecting on any weaknesses of the decisions made.
2. Do attitudes towards the benefits of EU membership appear to vary between countries? Can you spot any patterns?
3. Which socio-demographic characteristics influence an individual’s attitude towards membership of the EU? You should consider 4 to 5 different explanatory variables in your analysis, and develop a hypothesis for each one.
4. Do the impacts of your chosen socio-demographic variables vary between countries?
5. Does including individual level socio-demographic variables in your analysis change the pattern of variation in attitudes between countries?
Structure of report (important)
You are free to decide on the structure of the report, but one common structure is:
(1)Introduction :
What the project sets out to do with reference to relevant literature (2)Sources of data :
Briefly describe the dataset. Providing appropriate descriptive statistics of the variables you intend to use, and explaining how you intend to treat your dependent variable (see point 1 above).
(3)Data analysis :
Preliminary analysis – how do attitudes towards EU membership vary across individuals and countries
Main analysis: Building upon the preliminary analysis, this section would provide your main analysis of how attitudes towards the EU membership vary depending on a respondent’s characteristics, and whether these relationships vary between countries (points 3-5 above). (4)Conclusion
This section would summarize the results in non-technical language.
Tip: Remember presentation is important. You should extract the key model results and present these succinctly. All figures/tables should have titles and be well labelled
Eurobarometer 2016
Name of data set: eubar.dta
Variables in the extract:
id: index of respondents
country: the country where the respondent lives (NB: the survey includes all EU Member States plus other European countries)
euben: Country benefits (or would benefit) from EU membership. 1 = Benefited
2= Not Benefited 3 = Don’t Know
epatt: answers to the question, “In general, does the European Parliament conjure up for you a positive, neutal or negative image?”
0 = Postive
1= Neutral
2 = Negative
twospeed: Prefer European integration to occur at different speeds for different countries.
1= Should progress without waiting for all countries
2= Should only progress when all countries are ready 3= Don’t Know
urban: Nature of the community the respondent lives in
1 = Rural area or village
2 = Small/middle town
3 = Large town
billtrb: Whether the respondent has experienced difficulties paying bills in the last year.
1 = Most of the time
2 = From time to time 3 = Almost never/never
polpos: A 10 point scale representing the respondent’s political identification. Lower values represent left-wing views, higher values represent right-wing views.
gender: The sex of the respondent.
2 = Female
age: Respondent’s age in years children: Whether the respondent’s household contains
0 = No 1 = Yes
The dataset contains 27,768 cases, collected from 30 different countries. Sample sizes vary between countries. Some variables contain missing data.
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