catholic_schools: 1980 and 1982 High School and Beyond Data

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1980 and 1982 High School and Beyond Data

Description

These data are a subset of the data used in Raudenbush and Bryk (1999) for multilevel modeling.

Format

A data.frame with 1595 observations on the following variables.

school: unique school level identifier

ses: student level socio-economic status scale ranges from approx. -3.578 to 2.692

mathach: senior year mathematics test score, outcome measure

female: student level indicator for sex

minority: student level indicator for minority

minority_mean: school level measure of percentage of student body that is minority

female_mean: school level measure of percentage of student body that is female

ses_mean: school level measure of average level of student socio-economic status

sector: treatment indicator 1 if catholic 0 if public

size: school level measure of total number of enrolled students

acad: school level measure of the percentage of students on the academic track

discrm: school level measure of disciplinary climate ranges from approx. -2.4 to 2.7

size_large: school level indicator for schools with more than 1000 students

minority_mean_large: school level indicator for schools with more than ten percent minority

Source

Raudenbush, S. W. and Bryk, A. (2002). Hierarchical Linear Models: Applications and Data Analysis Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

References

United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics. High School and Beyond, 1980: Sophomore and Senior Cohort First Follow-Up (1982).


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