Hazal Gunduz
#Presidential Approval Polls
#An approval rating is a percentage determined by polling which indicates the percentage of respondents to an opinion poll who approve of a particular person or program. Typically, an approval rating is given to a politician based on responses to a poll in which a sample of people are asked whether they approve or disapprove of that particular political figure. The question could been ask: Do you approve or disapprove of the way that the current president can handling their job as president?
#Sometimes, pollsters release numbers for the president’s approval rating among different populations — for example, all adults, registered voters, likely voters. In this case, we default to the result that represents the broadest swath of people — so adults over registered voters, registered voters over likely voters.
president_approval_polls<-read.csv("https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls-page/data/president_approval_polls.csv")
president_approval_polls<-data.frame(president_approval_polls)
dim(president_approval_polls)## [1] 829 28head(president_approval_polls)## question_id poll_id state politician_id politician pollster_id
## 1 144551 75790 NA 42 Joseph R. Biden Jr. 1575
## 2 144553 75791 NA 42 Joseph R. Biden Jr. 399
## 3 144545 75787 NA 42 Joseph R. Biden Jr. 1189
## 4 144540 75785 NA 42 Joseph R. Biden Jr. 399
## 5 144606 75817 NA 42 Joseph R. Biden Jr. 1189
## 6 144526 75779 NA 42 Joseph R. Biden Jr. 241
## pollster sponsor_ids sponsors
## 1 Léger 1436 The Canadian Press
## 2 Rasmussen (Pulse Opinion Research) 1640 The ANTIFA
## 3 Morning Consult
## 4 Rasmussen (Pulse Opinion Research) 1640 The ANTIFA
## 5 Morning Consult
## 6 Ipsos 71 Reuters
## display_name pollster_rating_id
## 1 Léger 572
## 2 Rasmussen Reports/Pulse Opinion Research 277
## 3 Morning Consult 218
## 4 Rasmussen Reports/Pulse Opinion Research 277
## 5 Morning Consult 218
## 6 Ipsos 154
## pollster_rating_name fte_grade sample_size population
## 1 Léger B/C 1004 a
## 2 Rasmussen Reports/Pulse Opinion Research B 1500 lv
## 3 Morning Consult B 15623 rv
## 4 Rasmussen Reports/Pulse Opinion Research B 1500 lv
## 5 Morning Consult B 2200 a
## 6 Ipsos B- 1006 a
## population_full methodology start_date end_date sponsor_candidate tracking
## 1 a Online 8/27/21 8/30/21 NA NA
## 2 lv IVR/Online 8/26/21 8/30/21 NA TRUE
## 3 rv Online 8/27/21 8/29/21 NA TRUE
## 4 lv IVR/Online 8/25/21 8/29/21 NA TRUE
## 5 a Online 8/24/21 8/29/21 NA NA
## 6 a Online 8/25/21 8/26/21 NA NA
## created_at notes
## 1 8/31/21 09:21
## 2 8/31/21 10:03
## 3 8/30/21 17:15
## 4 8/30/21 11:07
## 5 8/31/21 21:03
## 6 8/26/21 20:25
## url
## 1 https://2g2ckk18vixp3neolz4b6605-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Legers-North-American-Tracker-August-30th-2021-compressed.pdf
## 2 https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/biden_approval_index_history
## 3 https://morningconsult.com/2021/08/30/joe-biden-approval-rating-afghanistan/
## 4 https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/biden_approval_index_history
## 5 https://assets.morningconsult.com/wp-uploads/2021/08/31163040/2108136_crosstabs_FDAAPPROVAL_Adults-1.pdf
## 6 https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2021-08/2021%20Ipsos%20Tracking%20-%20Core%20Political%20Presidential%20Approval%20Tracker%2008%2026%202021.pdf
## source yes no alternate_answers
## 1 538 48 49 2
## 2 538 44 54 0
## 3 538 48 49 3
## 4 538 45 54 0
## 5 538 48 45 0
## 6 538 49 46 0president_approval_polls<-data.frame(president_approval_polls)
summary(president_approval_polls)## question_id poll_id state politician_id
## Min. :139394 Min. :74246 Mode:logical Min. :42
## 1st Qu.:140261 1st Qu.:74523 NA's:829 1st Qu.:42
## Median :142305 Median :74788 Median :42
## Mean :141833 Mean :74865 Mean :42
## 3rd Qu.:143115 3rd Qu.:75063 3rd Qu.:42
## Max. :144606 Max. :75817 Max. :42
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## politician pollster_id pollster sponsor_ids
## Length:829 Min. : 11 Length:829 Length:829
## Class :character 1st Qu.: 399 Class :character Class :character
## Mode :character Median :1189 Mode :character Mode :character
## Mean : 884
## 3rd Qu.:1189
## Max. :1690
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## sponsors display_name pollster_rating_id pollster_rating_name
## Length:829 Length:829 Min. : 3.0 Length:829
## Class :character Class :character 1st Qu.:218.0 Class :character
## Mode :character Mode :character Median :218.0 Mode :character
## Mean :258.8
## 3rd Qu.:277.0
## Max. :688.0
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## fte_grade sample_size population population_full
## Length:829 Min. : 515 Length:829 Length:829
## Class :character 1st Qu.: 1242 Class :character Class :character
## Mode :character Median : 1500 Mode :character Mode :character
## Mean : 5205
## 3rd Qu.:15000
## Max. :22000
## NA's :7
## methodology start_date end_date sponsor_candidate
## Length:829 Length:829 Length:829 Mode:logical
## Class :character Class :character Class :character NA's:829
## Mode :character Mode :character Mode :character
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## tracking created_at notes url
## Mode:logical Length:829 Length:829 Length:829
## TRUE:379 Class :character Class :character Class :character
## NA's:450 Mode :character Mode :character Mode :character
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## source yes no alternate_answers
## Min. :538 Min. :40.0 Min. :28.00 Min. : 0.000
## 1st Qu.:538 1st Qu.:50.0 1st Qu.:37.00 1st Qu.: 0.000
## Median :538 Median :53.0 Median :40.00 Median : 0.000
## Mean :538 Mean :52.8 Mean :40.92 Mean : 2.317
## 3rd Qu.:538 3rd Qu.:55.0 3rd Qu.:45.00 3rd Qu.: 4.000
## Max. :538 Max. :63.0 Max. :55.10 Max. :26.000
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