Datasets for Statistical Analysis

What to do with the inheritance?

Keywords:

death; money

Categories:

generalized linear models;
social

Description:

The data come from a survey of adults concerning inheritance. Two vignettes were provided at random to the participants. In each, someone ('Dale' or 'Sam') is dying and the survey questions people about what Dale or Sam should do with the inheritance in a particular situation. The two vignettes present different scenarios: Dale is always in an altruistic scenario; Sam is always in a risky scenario. In some vignettes, Dale is male and in some Dale is female; likewise, in some vignettes, Sam is male and in some Sam is female. The responses are classified as to the opinion on what Dale or Sam should do with their inheritance: Whether they should do whatever they want with ther money ('Autonomy') or keep the money in the family somehow ('Bloodline inheritance'), or as something else (which also includes vague answers). Interest is in whether the Response depends on the gender of the participants or the person in the vignette; ages, etc.

There are 366 observations on 15 variables (some of which are re-coded versions of each other)

Variables:

ID	An identifier
Gender	The gender of the survey participant; 1 means male, 2 means female
Age	The age of the survey participant
Education	The highest education level of the survey participant; 1 means Priimary School; 2 means Some Secondary School; 3 means Grade 10; 4 means Grade 12; 5 means TAFE; 6 means Undergraduate degree; 7 means postgradute degree
Occupation	The occupation of the survey participant; 1 means home duties; 2 means retired; 3 means unskilled; 4 means semi-skilled; 5 means adminstrative and sales; 6 means trade or self-employed; 7 means professional; 8 means student; 9 means unemployed
Income	The income of the survey participants; 1 means $20,000 and under; 2 means $20,001 to $30,000; 3 means $30,001 to $40,000; 4 means $40,001 to $50,000; 5 means $50,001 to $60,000; 6 means $60,001 to $70,000; 7 means $70,001 to $80,000; 8 means $80,001 to $90,000; 9 means $90,001 to $100,000; 10 means over $100,000
Vignette	The type of vignette; 1 means altruistic (Dale); 2 means risky (Sam)
VignAge	The age of the person in the vignette; 1 means in their 50s; 2 means in their 60s; 3 means in their 70s; 4 means in their 80s
VignGend	The gender of the person in the vignette; 1 means male; 2 means female
Response	The type of response of the participant to the presented vignette; 1 means autonomy; 2 means bloodline inheritance; 3 means neither of the above
BinResponse	The type of response of the participant to the presented vignette, classified into only two groups; 2 means bloodline inheritance; 1 means anything else
CatAge	The age of the survey participants, placed into four categories; 1 means 18 to 35; 2 means 36 to 50; 3 means 51 to 65; 4 means over 65
CatEd	The highest education level of the survey participant, categoriszed into three groups; 1 means up to Year 10; 2 means between Year 10 and Year 12; 3 means post-secondary
Age40	The age of the survey participants, placed into two categories; 1 means under 40; 2 40 or over
Indecisive	The type of response of the participant to the presented vignette, classified into only two groups; 1 means Response is Neither; 2 means any other response

Data Quality:

There are some missing values: 2 in Age and CatAge; 7 in Education and CatEd; 4 in Occupation and 11 in Income

Source:

An Honours project by Kathyrn (Kate) Watson, 2006

Notes:

The data were collected from a non-random survey

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