brexit {DATAstudio} | R Documentation |
The data consist of 267 polls conducted before the June 23 2016 EU referendum, which took place in the UK.
brexit
A dataframe with 272 observations on six variables.
leave
, stay
, undecided
:
percentage in favor of each option.
date
:
date on which the poll was conducted.
pollster
:
institution conducting the poll.
size
:
number of polled subjects.
Financial Times (FT) Brexit poll tracker.
de Carvalho, M. and Martos, G. (2020). Brexit: Tracking and disentangling the sentiment towards leaving the EU. International Journal of Forecasting, 36, 1128-1137.
## Leave-stay plot (de Carvalho and Martos, 2018; Fig. 1)
data(brexit)
attach(brexit)
oldpar <- par(pty = "s")
plot(leave[(leave > stay)], stay[(leave > stay)],
xlim = c(22, 66), ylim = c(22, 66), pch = 16, col = "red",
xlab = "Leave", ylab = "Stay")
points(leave[(stay > leave)], stay[(stay > leave)],
pch = 16, col = "blue")
points(leave[(stay == leave)], stay[(stay == leave)],
pch = 24)
abline(a = 0, b = 1, lwd = 3)
par(oldpar)