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Name:

Congressional Votes on a Health Insurance Bill

Description:

Congressional votes on an ObamaCare health insurance bill in 2009

Variables:

A dataset with 435 observations on the following 10 variables.

Party	Party affiliation: D=Democrat or R=Republican
Dist.	Congressional district (State-Number)
InsVote	Vote on the health insurance bill: 1=yes or 0=no
Rep	Indicator for Republicans
Dem	Indicator for Democrats
Private	Percentage of non-senior citizens in district with private health insurance
Public	Percentage of non-senior citizens in district with public health insurance
Uninsured	Percentage of non-senior citizens in district with no health insurance
Obama	District winner in 2008 presidential election: 1=Obama 0=McCain

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Rows:

435

Columns:

Files:

Congressional Votes on a Health Insurance Bill_827_11.csv

License Type:

Public Domain (CC0)

References/Notes/Attributions:

Source

Insurance data are from the American Community Survey
(http://www.census.gov/acs/www/data_documentation/data_main/). Roll call of congressional votes on this bill can be found at
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll887.xml.

R Dataset Upload:

Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.

d <- read.csv("https://www.key2stats.com/Congressional_Votes_on_a_Health_Insurance_Bill_827_11.csv")