POL SCI 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Gun Control, Authoritarianism, Granularity
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Cases fall into one of a set of mutually exclusive and exhaustive unordered categories. The domain: for each category, the attribute or attributes a case must have to fall into each category. Assign some codes to it: nominal (numbers signify kind/type) Cases fall into one of a set of mutually exclusive and exhaustive ordered categories. To feel belonging: attachment to the country, attachment to symbol, attachment to citizens. On a continuum: disconnect to country-------------------connect to country . It does not matter what number you use, as long as every type gets a different number. Marital status coded: 1 married, 2 living with partner, 3 never married, 4 separated, 5 divorced, 6 widowed. Marital status recoded: (practical recode) (only changes code: 1 married, 3 living with partner, 5 never married, 7 separated, 9 divorced, 11 widowed. Marital status recoded 2: (substantive recode) (also changes number of groups: 1 living with partner, 0 not living with partner.
