nels: Nels Data

In ccolonescu/PoEdata: PoE data for R

Description

Obs: 6649 observations

Usage

data("nels")

Format

A data frame with 6649 observations on the following 14 variables.

psechoice

= 1 if first postsecondary education was no college

= 2 if first postsecondary education was a 2-year college

= 3 if first postsecondary education was a 4-year college

hscath

= 1 if catholic high school graduate

hsrural

= 1 if high school rural

grades

= average grade in math, english and social studies on 13 point scale with 1 = highest

faminc

gross 1991 family income (in $1000)

famsiz

number of family members

parsome

= 1 if most educated parent had some college, but not a 4-year degree

parcoll

= 1 if most educated parent graduated from college or had an advanced degree

female

= 1 if female

asian

= 1 if asian

hispan

= 1 if hispan

black

= 1 if black

grants

= 1 if student had a grant/scholarship or fellowship when attending college

loans

= 1 if student received a loan while attending college

Source

http://principlesofeconometrics.com/poe4/poe4.htm

References

Data a sample from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88).The study and data are summarized in National Education Longitudinal Study: 1988-1994, Descriptive Summary Report With an Essay on Access and Choice in Post-secondary Education, by Allen Sanderson, Bernard Dugoni, Kenneth Rasinski and John Taylor, C. Dennis Carroll project officer, NCES 96-175, National Center for Education Statistics, March 1996.

Examples

data(nels)
## maybe str(nels) ; plot(nels) ...

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