Assignment 2
Preparation
Download this Rmarkdown file, fill in your name and student number, and complete your assignment in the Rmarkdown file. “knit” your text and code into an pdf-file, and upload this pdf-file on Brightspace before the next lecture.
Dataset
The European Social Survey is a cross-national survey that measures the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour on diverse topics from several European nations. patterns of diverse populations in more than thirty nations. These data are freely available. For this assignment, we’ll only use the data from 2018 from ten countries on a selected set of variables with hundred cases for each country.
## cntry ageadlt agemage ageoage iaglptn iagmr iagpnt iagrtr tygledu tyglvp
## 1 Austria 20 30 90 20 25 25 65 13 17
## 2 Austria 18 27 55 20 22 25 65 19 17
## 3 Austria 20 45 75 19 25 25 60 14 16
## 4 Austria 20 30 70 22 27 25 57 15 18
## 5 Austria 24 50 70 20 30 33 65 14 17
## 6 Austria 21 37 60 20 27 28 60 17 18
## tygmr tygpnt tygrtr tolvpnt tochld towkht
## 1 18 18 45 25 45 66
## 2 17 17 60 25 30 60
## 3 18 20 50 25 45 65
## 4 20 23 50 25 40 62
## 5 18 18 55 27 55 65
## 6 21 25 50 25 50 65There is one country variable (cntry), and the rest of the variables concern question on the “appropriate” or “right” age for several topics. This is the list of the variables and their explanation:
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## group_rows| Variable | Explanation |
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| ageadlt | Age become adults |
| agemage | Age reach middle age |
| ageoage | Age reach old age |
| iaglptn | Start living with partner not married to, ideal age |
| iagmr | Get married, ideal age |
| iagpnt | Become mother/ father, ideal age |
| iagrtr | Retire permanently, ideal age |
| tygledu | Leave full-time education, age too young |
| tyglvp | Start living with partner not married to, age too young |
| tygmr | Get married, age too young |
| tygpnt | Become mother/ father, age too young |
| tygrtr | Retire permanently, age too young |
| tolvpnt | Still be living with parents, age too old |
| tochld | Consider having more children, age too old |
| towkht | Be working 20 hours or more per week, age too old |
Your task
On the basis of these data from the ESS-survey, try to create an informative and pretty graph. Include the following elements.
Create a plot that compares distributions across different countries. You can choose what variable to focus on and what geom(s) work best.
Explain in no more than 250 words what the graph is showing, and what unique insights it delivers. Also reflect on what it fails to show or what you would have liked to include in the graph but was not able to.
Create appropriate axis-labels and titles.
Create your own theme and add this theme to your graph.
Be sure to create clean code (see here)
Submit your PDF-file online
When you are done with your assignment, try clicking the “Knit”-button in Rstudio so that your code will be knitted into a pdf-file. Submit this file on Brightspace.
If you see an error appear, try to fix the error and try again. If you can’t get the “knitting” to work, then you can copy your code, text, and graphs into a word-file and submit it on Brightspace.