24,752 rated or chosen profiles from 1,768 respondents, in up to 7 tasks of 2 profiles varying on 6 attributes.

One of 5 tables from the same source; this one is the job_training_korea table. The others are listed under Related tables.

About this table

Description	South Korean survey respondents (IFES 2023; n = 1,768) chose between two hypothetical people in 7 tasks of a job-training conjoint, profiles varying in age, family, gender, occupation, criminal record and origin (North Hamgyong, DPRK / Busan, ROK / Gyeonggi, ROK / Hanoi, Vietnam). Outcome: forced choice.
Reference	Brehm, N., Zhou, A. H., & Denney, S. (2025). From division to democracy: Integrating post-socialist citizens in Germany and South Korea. Communist and Post-Communist Studies.
DOI	10.1525/cpcs.2025.2636997
Licence	CC0 1.0
Source data	https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WYBIAK

Notes

Conjoint table (irw_conjoint). choice: which of two hypothetical people the respondent picked in the job-training conjoint (question wording not deposited; paraphrase), forced choice with exactly one chosen per task, no opt-out. Attribute levels are the authors' English translations; the authors standardized Age to 25/35/46/62. Record is unequally distributed (None about 70%). 1,768 respondents, matching the README. Year of birth kept as recorded (12 respondents born after 2005).

These notes describe the source data, which the IRW reproduces as released. All notes are listed on the Data Notes page.

Design

Topic	tax welfare economy
A profile represents	person
Country	KR
Language shown	ko
Language of stored levels	en
Randomization restrictions	unknown
Task order	recorded in the deposit
Profile position	recorded in the deposit

Outcomes:

choice	Which of the two people do you choose? (paraphrase) [choice, forced]

Columns

attr_ageattr_familyattr_genderattr_occupationattr_originattr_recordchoicecov_ancestry_importancecov_birth_yearcov_birthplace_importancecov_educationcov_femalecov_korean_pridecov_national_compositioncov_national_identitycov_party_votecov_political_ideologycov_provincecov_support_nk_defectorscov_support_nk_engagementidprofiletask

The layout (one row per respondent, task and profile; choice/rating outcomes; attr_ columns holding each attribute level as displayed) is defined in the IRW conjoint standard. What the outcomes asked is under Design above.

Get the data

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Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("brehm_2025_job_training_korea", source = "conj")

# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("brehm_2025_job_training_korea", source="conj")

How to cite

@article{Brehm_2025, title={From Division to Democracy}, ISSN={1873-6920}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/cpcs.2025.2636997}, DOI={10.1525/cpcs.2025.2636997}, journal={Communist and Post-Communist Studies}, publisher={University of California Press}, author={Brehm, Robin and Zhou, Tianzi and Denney, Steven}, year={2025}, pages={1–24} }

Respondents	1,768
Rows (one per respondent, task and profile)	24,752
Tasks per respondent (most)	7
Profiles per task	2
Attributes	6
Tasks with no profile chosen	0

IRW version	v584
Redivis dataset	irw_conjoint v4.2
Redivis dataset DOI	10.57761/qkye-q530
Manifest pin for this IRW version	v4.2
Metadata source	irw_meta v44.0

brehm_2025_job_training_korea