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Attitudes of Australians to GM food

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Keywords:
genetically modified food
Categories:
social; generalized linear models
Description:
The data give the attitudes of 894 respondents to a question about genetically modified foods, classified according to the income.

There are three variable on four observations.

Variables:
Count The counts within each category
Income The income classification: Low or High
Attitude The attitude towards genetically modified food: For or Against
Data Quality:
There are no missing values.
Source:
J. Norton, G. Lawrence and G. R. Wood (1996). The Australian public's perception of genetically-engineered foods. Australasian Biotechnology, 8, 172--181.
Notes:
References:
D. Luo, G. R. Wood and G. Jones (2004). Visualising contingency table data. The Australian Mathematical Society Gazette, 31(4), 258--262.