subECLSK: A subset of the ECLSK (Early Childhood Longitudinal Study –...

In dingjshi/ALMOND: Bayesian Analysis of Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE) for Missing or/and Nonnormal Data (ALMOND)

Description

The dataset contains the reading and mathematics scores and other attributes of 600 kindergarteners. The variables are as follows.

Usage

data(subECLSK)

Format

A data frame with 600 rows (participants) and 11 columns (variables).

Details

• dobmm. The date of birth measured in months.

• gender. 1=Male; 2=Female

• race.

  • 1 = White,non-Hispanic

  • 2 = Black or African American, non-Hispanic

  • 3 = Hispanic, race specified

  • 4 = Hispanic, race no specified

  • 5 = Asian

  • 6 = Native Hawaiin, other Pacific islander

  • 7 = American Indian or Alaska native

  • 8 = More than one race, non-Hispanic

• readingIRT. Reading IRT (Item Response Theory) scaled score.

• mathIRT. Mathematics IRT (Item Response Theory) scaled score.

• numsib. Number of siblings in household.

• parentedu. Parent highest education level.

• ses. Continuous socioeconomic status measure.

• relAge. The relative age of the participant entering kindergarten measured in months.

• PredEnt. The predicted relative kindergarten entrance age.

• mis.ind.read. Is the reading IRT score missing? 1=Yes, 0=No.

• mis.ind.math. Is the math IRT score missing? 1=Yes, 0=No.

References

Zhong, S. Y., & Hoxby, C. M. (2012). The effects of relative age on early childhood academic achievement: how they differ between gender and change across time. (Unpublished Honors Thesis) Stanford University, Stanford, CA. http://economics. stanford. edu/_les/StephanieYuechenZhongHonorsThesis2012.

Tourangeau, K., Nord, C., Lê, T., Sorongon, A. G., & Najarian, M. (2009). Early childhood longitudinal study, kindergarten class of 1998–99 (ECLS-K), combined User's manual for the ECLS-K eighth-grade and K–8 full sample data files and electronic codebooks (NCES2009–004). National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Departmentof Education. Washington DC.

Examples

data(subECLSK)

dingjshi/ALMOND documentation built on June 18, 2020, 4:32 p.m.