"""Taxation Powers Vote for the Scottish Parliament 1997 dataset."""
__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext'
COPYRIGHT = """Used with express permission from the original author,
who retains all rights."""
TITLE = "Taxation Powers Vote for the Scottish Parliamant 1997"
SOURCE = """
Jeff Gill's `Generalized Linear Models: A Unified Approach`
http://jgill.wustl.edu/research/books.html
"""
DESCRSHORT = """Taxation Powers' Yes Vote for Scottish Parliamanet-1997"""
DESCRLONG = """
This data is based on the example in Gill and describes the proportion of
voters who voted Yes to grant the Scottish Parliament taxation powers.
The data are divided into 32 council districts. This example's explanatory
variables include the amount of council tax collected in pounds sterling as
of April 1997 per two adults before adjustments, the female percentage of
total claims for unemployment benefits as of January, 1998, the standardized
mortality rate (UK is 100), the percentage of labor force participation,
regional GDP, the percentage of children aged 5 to 15, and an interaction term
between female unemployment and the council tax.
The original source files and variable information are included in
/scotland/src/
"""
NOTE = """::
Number of Observations - 32 (1 for each Scottish district)
Number of Variables - 8
Variable name definitions::
YES - Proportion voting yes to granting taxation powers to the
Scottish parliament.
COUTAX - Amount of council tax collected in pounds steling as of
April '97
UNEMPF - Female percentage of total unemployment benefits claims as of
January 1998
MOR - The standardized mortality rate (UK is 100)
ACT - Labor force participation (Short for active)
GDP - GDP per county
AGE - Percentage of children aged 5 to 15 in the county
COUTAX_FEMALEUNEMP - Interaction between COUTAX and UNEMPF
Council district names are included in the data file, though are not
returned by load.
"""
import numpy as np
from statsmodels.datasets import utils as du
from os.path import dirname, abspath
[docs]def load():
"""
Load the Scotvote data and returns a Dataset instance.
Returns
-------
Dataset instance:
See DATASET_PROPOSAL.txt for more information.
"""
data = _get_data()
return du.process_recarray(data, endog_idx=0, dtype=float)
[docs]def load_pandas():
"""
Load the Scotvote data and returns a Dataset instance.
Returns
-------
Dataset instance:
See DATASET_PROPOSAL.txt for more information.
"""
data = _get_data()
return du.process_recarray_pandas(data, endog_idx=0, dtype=float)
def _get_data():
filepath = dirname(abspath(__file__))
data = np.recfromtxt(open(filepath + '/scotvote.csv',"rb"), delimiter=",",
names=True, dtype=float, usecols=(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8))
return data