unidat: Data of 37 Australian public universities

In LiangCZhang/Rcess: Rcess: An R package for calculating estimates of costs and economies of scale and scope

Description

A panel data containing the cost, outputs, and prices of 37 Australian public universities over the period from 2003 to 2012

Usage

unidat

Format

A data frame with 370 rows and 24 variables:

year

Data collection time point

unicode

Index of Australian universities

c

Total operating expenditure, in thousands of AUD (2003 = 100)

w1

Price of academic labour, in thousands of AUD (2003 = 100)

w2

Price of non-academic labour, in thousands of AUD (2003 = 100)

w3

Price of non-labour, in thousands of AUD (2003 = 100)

y1

Domestic science completions

y2

Domestic non-science completions

y3

Overseas science completions

y4

Overseas non-science completions

y5

Number of publications

q

Attrition rate, in percentages

z1

One for ATN institutions, otherwise zero

z2

One for Go8 institutions, otherwise zero

z3

One for IRU institutions, otherwise zero

z4

One for RUN institutions, otherwise zero

g1

One for Institutions located in NSW, otherwise zero

g2

One for Institutions located in VIC, otherwise zero

g3

One for Institutions located in QLD, otherwise zero

g4

One for Institutions located in WA, otherwise zero

g5

One for Institutions located in SA, otherwise zero

g6

One for Institutions located in ACT, otherwise zero

g7

One for Institutions located in TAS, otherwise zero

g8

One for Institutions located in NT, otherwise zero

Details

This data is formatted based on Zhang et al. (in press) and collected from multiple sources. For outputs and control variables (y, q, z, and g), they are from Australian Government Department of Education and Training (n.d.-b) For Total operating expenditure and price variables (c and w), they are from Australian Government Department of Education and Training (n.d.-a). Please see the data copyright here

Source

Australian Government Department of Education and Training. (n.d.-a). Higher education publications: Finance publication. Retrieved from https://www.education.gov.au/finance-publication

Australian Government Department of Education and Training. (n.d.-b). uCube - Higher education statistics. Retrieved from http://highereducationstatistics.education.gov.au/Default.aspx

Zhang, L.-C., Worthington, A. C., & Hu, M. (in press). Cost economies in the provision of higher education for international students: Australian evidence. Higher Education. doi: 10.1007/s10734-016-0078-9

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