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new_packages <- packages[!(packages %in% installed.packages()[,"Package"])]
if(length(new_packages)) install.packages(new_packages)

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lapply(packages, library, character.only = TRUE)
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ess <- read_fst("All-ESS-Data.fst")

Task 1

Provide code and answer.

Prompt and question: calculate the average for the variable ‘happy’ for the country of Norway. On average, based on the ESS data, who reports higher levels of happiness: Norway or Belgium?

Note: we already did it for Belgium. You just need to compare to Norway’s average, making sure to provide the code for both.

unique(ess$cntry)
##  [1] "AT" "BE" "CH" "CZ" "DE" "DK" "ES" "FI" "FR" "GB" "GR" "HU" "IE" "IL" "IT"
## [16] "LU" "NL" "NO" "PL" "PT" "SE" "SI" "EE" "IS" "SK" "TR" "UA" "BG" "CY" "RU"
## [31] "HR" "LV" "RO" "LT" "AL" "XK" "ME" "RS" "MK"
belgium_happy <- ess %>% # note: if you work from belgium_data replace "ess" with belgium_data
  filter(cntry == "BE") %>% 
  select(happy)

belgium_happy$y <- belgium_happy$happy

table(belgium_happy$y)
## 
##    0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10   77   88   99 
##   50   27  104  194  234  830  999 3503 6521 3402 1565    3   16    3
belgium_happy$y[belgium_happy$y %in% 77:99] <- NA

# checking again
table(belgium_happy$y)
## 
##    0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10 
##   50   27  104  194  234  830  999 3503 6521 3402 1565
mean_y <- mean(belgium_happy$y, na.rm = TRUE)
cat("Mean of 'y' is:", mean_y, "\n")
## Mean of 'y' is: 7.737334
norway_happy <- ess %>% 
  filter(cntry == "NO") %>% 
  select(happy)

norway_happy$y <- norway_happy$happy

table(norway_happy$y)
## 
##    0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10   77   88 
##   15   29   59  163  238  730  817 2617 5235 3796 2344   12   10
norway_happy$y[norway_happy$y %in% 77:88] <- NA

# checking again
table(norway_happy$y)
## 
##    0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10 
##   15   29   59  163  238  730  817 2617 5235 3796 2344
meanNO_Y <- mean(norway_happy$y, na.rm = TRUE)
cat("Mean of 'meanNO_Y' is:", meanNO_Y, "\n")
## Mean of 'meanNO_Y' is: 7.975005

The data indicates Norway reports higher rates of happiness

Task 2

Provide code and answer.

Prompt and question: what is the most common category selected, for Irish respondents, for frequency of binge drinking? The variable of interest is: alcbnge.

More info here: https://ess-search.nsd.no/en/variable/0c65116e-7481-4ca6-b1d9-f237db99a694.

Hint: need to convert numeric value entries to categories as specified in the variable information link. We did similar steps for Estonia and the climate change attitude variable.

ireland_alcbnge <- ess %>% # note: if you work from belgium_data replace "ess" with belgium_data
  filter(cntry == "IE") %>% 
  select(alcbnge)

ireland_alcbnge$y <- ireland_alcbnge$alcbnge

table(ireland_alcbnge$y)
## 
##   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8 
##  65 650 346 417 239 641  26   6
ireland_alcbnge$y[ireland_alcbnge$y %in% 6:8] <- NA

# checking again
table(ireland_alcbnge$y)
## 
##   1   2   3   4   5 
##  65 650 346 417 239
# Converting to categories to get mode as a category instead of a number
df <- ireland_alcbnge %>%
  mutate(
    y_category = case_when(
      y == 1 ~ "Daily or almost daily",
      y == 2 ~ "Weekly",
      y == 3 ~ "Monthly",
      y == 4 ~ "Less than monthly",
      y == 5 ~ "Never",
      TRUE ~ NA_character_
    ),
    y_category = fct_relevel(factor(y_category),  ### here you would put the categories in order you want them to appear or else it will appear alphabetically
                             "Daily or almost daily", 
                             "Weekly", 
                             "Monthly", 
                             "Less than monthly", 
                             "Never")
  )

# To confirm the conversion:
table(df$y_category)
## 
## Daily or almost daily                Weekly               Monthly 
##                    65                   650                   346 
##     Less than monthly                 Never 
##                   417                   239
get_mode <- function(v) {
  tbl <- table(v)
  mode_vals <- as.character(names(tbl)[tbl == max(tbl)])
  return(mode_vals)
}

mode_values <- get_mode(df$y_category)
cat("Mode of y category:", paste(mode_values, collapse = ", "), "\n")
## Mode of y category: Weekly

The most common category was weekly drinking

Task 3

Provide code and answer.

Prompt and question: when you use the summary() function for the variable plnftr (about planning for future or taking every each day as it comes from 0-10) for both the countries of Portugal and Serbia, what do you notice? What stands out as different when you compare the two countries (note: look up the variable information on the ESS website to help with interpretation)? Explain while referring to the output generated.

portugal_plnftr  <- ess %>% 
  filter(cntry == "PT") %>% 
  select(happy)

portugal_plnftr$y <- portugal_plnftr$happy

table(portugal_plnftr$y)
## 
##    0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10   77   88   99 
##  139  127  349  647  805 2589 2687 3664 3835 1610 1328   26   70    5
portugal_plnftr$y[portugal_plnftr$y %in% 77:99] <- NA

# checking again
table(portugal_plnftr$y)
## 
##    0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10 
##  139  127  349  647  805 2589 2687 3664 3835 1610 1328
serbia_plnftr  <- ess %>% 
  filter(cntry == "RS") %>% 
  select(plnftr)

serbia_plnftr$y <- serbia_plnftr$plnftr

table(serbia_plnftr$y)
## 
##   0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10  77  88 
## 587 133 152 138  95 246  70  87 103  47 364   4  17
serbia_plnftr$y[serbia_plnftr$y %in% 77:99] <- NA

# checking again
table(serbia_plnftr$y)
## 
##   0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 
## 587 133 152 138  95 246  70  87 103  47 364
summary(serbia_plnftr)
##      plnftr             y         
##  Min.   : 0.000   Min.   : 0.000  
##  1st Qu.: 0.000   1st Qu.: 0.000  
##  Median : 4.000   Median : 4.000  
##  Mean   : 4.983   Mean   : 4.143  
##  3rd Qu.: 8.000   3rd Qu.: 8.000  
##  Max.   :88.000   Max.   :10.000  
##  NA's   :1505     NA's   :1526

Task 4

Provide code and answer.

Prompt and question: using the variables stfdem and gndr, answer the following: on average, who is more dissastified with democracy in Italy, men or women? Explain while referring to the output generated.

Info on variable here: https://ess.sikt.no/en/variable/query/stfdem/page/1

italy_data <- ess %>% 
  filter(cntry == "IT")


italy_data <- italy_data %>%
  mutate(
    gndr = case_when(
      gndr == 1 ~ "Male",
      gndr == 2 ~ "Female",
      gndr == 9 ~ "NA",
      TRUE ~ as.character(gndr)
    ),
    stfdem = ifelse(stfdem %in% c(77, 99), NA, stfdem)  
  )

# Compute mean for male
mean_male_stfdem <- italy_data %>%
  filter(gndr == "Male") %>%
  summarize(mean_stfdem_men = mean(stfdem, na.rm = TRUE))

print(mean_male_stfdem)
##   mean_stfdem_men
## 1        7.049064
means_by_gender <- italy_data %>%
  group_by(gndr) %>% # here you are "grouping by" your second variable
  summarize(stfdem = mean(stfdem, na.rm = TRUE)) # here you are summarizing your variable of interest

print(means_by_gender)
## # A tibble: 3 × 2
##   gndr   stfdem
##   <chr>   <dbl>
## 1 Female   8.01
## 2 Male     7.05
## 3 NA       3.25

Females are more dissatisfied with democracy in Italy

Task 5

Provide code and answer.

Prompt: Interpret the boxplot graph of stfedu and stfhlth that we generated already: according to ESS data, would we say that the median French person is more satisfied with the education system or health services? Explain.

Change the boxplot graph: provide the code to change some of the key labels: (1) Change the title to: Boxplot of satisfaction with the state of education vs. health services; (2) Remove the x-axis label; (3) Change the y-axis label to: Satisfaction (0-10).

Hint: copy the boxplot code above and just replace or cut what is asked.

france_data <- ess %>% 
  filter(cntry == "FR")

france_data %>%
  # Setting values to NA
  mutate(stfedu = ifelse(stfedu %in% c(77, 88, 99), NA, stfedu),
         stfhlth = ifelse(stfhlth %in% c(77, 88, 99), NA, stfhlth)) %>%
  # Reshaping the data
  select(stfedu, stfhlth) %>%
  gather(variable, value, c(stfedu, stfhlth)) %>%
  # Creating the boxplot
  ggplot(aes(x = variable, y = value)) +
  geom_boxplot() +
  labs(y = "Satisfaction (0-10)", x = " ",  title = "Boxplot of satisfaction with the state of education vs. health services") +
  theme_minimal()
## Warning: Removed 364 rows containing non-finite values (`stat_boxplot()`).

The median line within the boxplot of satisfaction with health services is higher, therefore satisfaction with healthcare is higher in France.