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ess_health.RdThis dataset contains data from the ESS Wave 7 (2014) for Germany, the UK and France that describes respondents physical and mental health as well as specific health behaviours. It can be used to demonstrate most functions of this package.
A dataframe with 7,226 rows and 23 columns
Country
Gender (1 = male, 2 = female)
Age
Education
Population weight - adjust for different population sizes between countries
Post-stratification weight - adjusts for bias in national samples due to sampling error and non-response (considering gender, age, education and region) AND for unequal inclusion probabilities due to survey design
Overall health, from 1 = very good to 5 = very bad
Height (cm)
Weight (kg)
Respondent born in country, 1 = yes, 2 = no
How often eat fruit, excluding drinking juice, from 1 = three times or more per day to 7 = never
How often eat vegetables or salad, excluding potatoes, from 1 = three times or more per day to 7 = never
Do sports or other physical activity, how many of last 7 days
Cigarettes smoking behaviour, from 1 = I smoke daily to 5 = I have never smoked
How often drink alcohol, from 1 = every day to 5 = never
Felt depressed in past week, from 1 = none/almost none of the time to 4 = all/almost all of the time (same for next 7 variables)
Felt everything did as effort
Sleep was restless
Were happy
Felt lonely
Enjoyed life
Felt sad
Could not get going