gpa1: gpa1

In wooldridge: 115 Data Sets from "Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach, 7e" by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

gpa1

Description

Wooldridge Source: Christopher Lemmon, a former MSU undergraduate, collected these data from a survey he took of MSU students in Fall 1994. Data loads lazily.

Usage

data('gpa1')

Format

A data.frame with 141 observations on 29 variables:

• age: in years

• soph: =1 if sophomore

• junior: =1 if junior

• senior: =1 if senior

• senior5: =1 if fifth year senior

• male: =1 if male

• campus: =1 if live on campus

• business: =1 if business major

• engineer: =1 if engineering major

• colGPA: MSU GPA

• hsGPA: high school GPA

• ACT: 'achievement' score

• job19: =1 if job <= 19 hours

• job20: =1 if job >= 20 hours

• drive: =1 if drive to campus

• bike: =1 if bicycle to campus

• walk: =1 if walk to campus

• voluntr: =1 if do volunteer work

• PC: =1 of pers computer at sch

• greek: =1 if fraternity or sorority

• car: =1 if own car

• siblings: =1 if have siblings

• bgfriend: =1 if boy- or girlfriend

• clubs: =1 if belong to MSU club

• skipped: avg lectures missed per week

• alcohol: avg # days per week drink alc.

• gradMI: =1 if Michigan high school

• fathcoll: =1 if father college grad

• mothcoll: =1 if mother college grad

Notes

This is a nice example of how students can obtain an original data set by focusing locally and carefully composing a survey.

Used in Text: pages 75, 77, 81, 129-130, 160, 232, 262, 295-296, 300-301

Source

https://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781111531041

Examples

 str(gpa1)

wooldridge documentation built on May 3, 2023, 5:06 p.m.