Russians' Opinions on US Election Influence in 2016 — russian_influence_on_us_election

Survey of Russian citizens on whether they believed their government tried to influence the 2016 US election. The survey was taken in Spring 2018 by Pew Research.

Usage

russian_influence_on_us_election_2016

Format

A data frame with 506 observations on the following variable.

influence_2016: Response of the Russian survey participant to the question of whether their government tried to influence the 2016 election in the United States.

Source

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2018/08/21/russians-say-their-government-did-not-try-to-influence-u-s-presidential-election/

Details

The actual sample size was 1000. However, the original data were not from a simple random sample; after accounting for the design, the equivalent sample size was 506, which was what was used for the data set here to keep things simpler for intro stat analyses.

Examples


table(russian_influence_on_us_election_2016)
#> influence_2016
#> Did not try     Did try  Don't know 
#>         359          76          71