A data frame with 239 observations on the following 14 variables.
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ALP
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a numeric vector, percentage of respondents reported as intending to vote for the Australian Labor Party
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Lib
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a numeric vector, percentage of respondents reported as intending to vote for the Liberal Party
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Nat
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a numeric vector, percentage of respondents reported as intending to vote for the National Party
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Green
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a numeric vector, percentage of respondents reported as intending to vote for the Greens
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FamilyFirst
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a numeric vector, percentage of respondents reported as intending to vote for the Family First party
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Dems
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a numeric vector, percentage of respondents reported as intending to vote for the Australian Democrats
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OneNation
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a numeric vector, percentage of respondents reported as intending to vote for One Nation
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DK
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a numeric vector, percentage of respondents reported as expressing no preference or a “don't know” response
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sampleSize
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a numeric vector, reported sample size of the poll
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org
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a factor with levels Galaxy, Morgan, F2F, Newspoll, Nielsen and Morgan, Phone, indicating the survey house and/or mode of the poll
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startDate
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a Date, reported start of the field period
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endDate
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a Date, reported end of the field period
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source
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a character vector, source of the poll report
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remark
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a character vector, remarks noted by author and/or research assistant coders
Morgan uses two modes: phone and face-to-face.
The 2004 Australian election was on October 9; the ALP won 37.6% of the 1st preferences cast in elections for the House of Representatives. The ALP won the 2007 election (November 24) with 43.4% of 1st preferences.
The ALP changed leaders twice in the 2004-07 inter-election period spanned by these data: (1) Mark Latham resigned the ALP leadership on January 18 2005 and was replaced by Kim Beazley; (2) Beazley lost the ALP leadership to Kevin Rudd on December 4, 2006.
The then Prime Minister, John Howard, announced the November 2007 election on October 14, 2007.
