Akbar Zamir aaz
johnburnmurdoch
/ tiktok_reform_model.R
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March 22, 2025 12:38
Replication code for Financial Times analysis of the association between getting news from TikTok and shifting towards Reform UK
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| # Model impact on vote choice of having seen political content on social media | |
| needs(tidyverse, stats, haven, survey, MASS) | |
| # Read in BESIP trend file, which you can download from here: https://www.britishelectionstudy.com/data-object/british-election-study-combined-wave-1-29-internet-panel/ | |
| BESIP_trend <- read_dta("path/to/BES2024_W29_Panel_v29A.0.dta", encoding = "latin1") | |
| BESIP_trend_dd <- stata_summary(BESIP_trend) | |
| # If social media political content is missing (because the respondent does not use that platform), code it the same way as people who said they saw no content | |
| # Group education into four segments, including current full-time students | |
| # Vote variables are vote intention as at May 2021 and immediately before the 2024 general election |