Using AmericasBarometer data

Using AmericasBarometer data

You will find in this web modules where AmericasBarometer data is used in R and RStudio. The analyses replicate results shown in several reports produced by LAPOP. These results give an outlook of how to use our data to produce statistical results.

Topics

Preparation

1. Installing R and RStudio

2. Basic procedures

3. Importing datasets

First steps

1. Data manipulation

2. Survey weights

Describing and plotting data

1. Descriptive statistics: nominal variables

2. Descriptive statistics: ordinal variables

3. Descriptive statistics: numerical variables

Basic inference

1. Confidence intervals

2. Compararing 2 means

3. Comparing more than 2 means

4. Crosstables and chi-square analysis

Modeling

1. Correlation

2. Simple linear regression

3. Multivariate linear regression

4. Logistic regression

Extras

1. Maps using AmericasBarometer data

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