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Working with D-nominate data in Excel Data are stored on the courses server in the ICPSR folder Data are in Excel or in Stata format Key variables are: –Congress number –Party (100=Dem, 200=Rep) –First dimension nominate score
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Files are in this directory
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This is what the spreadsheet looks like. Notice that there are no “header” (variable names). It’s pretty easy to figure out what each column represents. We want columns A and H, but we have to pay attention to column F.
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Look at how I will sort the data, on state, then on district, then on year.
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The data are now sorted the way I want.
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I have deleted all rows except for Illinois districts.
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First, I copy/paste the data for member two to the right of the data for member one. Hey why does this not line up??
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Now I create three new columns. I title the first dimension for member 1 “1 Dem” since that seat was always held by a Dem. I make two more columns (2 Rep and 2 Dem) for the second district data. Now I manually copy/paste.
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Now I have reorganized things, eliminated extraneous columns, and am working with district 3.
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Now I am done with district 3 data.
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Now my graphic is ready to paste into my paper.
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