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Data sets for Chapter 14

  1. Breakfast Items
  2. Breweries
  3. Contrived Color Preferences
  4. Empirical Color Preferences
  5. Political Party Preferences

1. Breakfast Items

Description file, Raw data, Excel file, SPSS data file.

Title: Breakfast Items

Source: Green and Rao (1972)

Description: Preference orders for 42 individuals on 15 breakfast items,
in decreasing order of preference.

The breakfast items are:

1 toast pop-up
2 buttered toast
3 English muffin and margarine
4 jelly donut
5 cinnamon toast
6 blueberry muffin and margarine
7 hard rolls and butter
8 toast and marmalade
9 buttered toast and jelly
10 toast and margarine
11 cinnamon bun
12 Danish pastry
13 glazed donut
14 coffee cake
15 corn muffin and butter

2. Breweries

Description file, Raw data, Excel file, SPSS data file.

Title: Breweries

Source: Borg and Bergermaier (1982)

Description: Beer drinkers were asked to rate 9 breweries on 26
attributes. The attributes were, e.g., Brewery has rich tradition or
Brewery makes very good Pils beer. Relative to each attribute, the
informant had to assign each brewery a score on a 6-point scale
ranging from 1=not true at all to 6=very true. The resulting
scores are therefore taken as similarity values.

3. Contrived Color Preferences

Description file, Raw data, Excel file, SPSS data file.

Title: Contrived Color Preferences

Source: Davison (1983)

Description: Contrived color preferences of six persons (A to F).
The data are ranks, where 1=most preferred.

The colors are:

1 Orange
2 Red
3 Violet
4 Blue
5 Green
6 Yellow

4. Empirical Color Preferences

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Title: Empirical Color Preferences

Source: Wilkinson (1996)

Description: Empirical color preferences of 15 persons.
The data are ranks, where 1=most preferred.

The colors are:

1 Red
2 Orange
3 Yellow
4 Green
5 Blue

5. Political Party Preferences

Description file, Raw data, Excel file, SPSS data file.

Title: Political Party Preferences

Source: Norpoth (1979)

Description: Dominant preference profiles (columns) for German political
parties in 1969. A score of 1 indicates most preferred.

The columns in the table are as follows:

1 SPD (social democrats)
2 FDP (liberals)
3 CDU (conservatives)
4 NPD (nationalists)
5 DKP (communists)
6 freq

The column freq shows the frequency of the respective preference order in
a representative survey of 907 persons.