Mixed Model Helper Functions

hsb	R Documentation

HSB: High School and Beyond Data

Description

This data is a modified subsample from the 1982 High School and Beyond Survey and is used extensively in Hierarchical Linear Models by Raudenbush and Bryk. The data file, called hsb, consists of 7,185 students nested in 160 schools. The outcome variable of interest is the student-level (level 1) math achievement score (mathach). The variable ses is the socio-economic status of a student and therefore is at the student level. The variable meanses is the average SES for each school and therefore is at the school level (level 2). The variable sector is a variable indicating if a school is public or catholic and is therefore a school-level variable. There are 90 public schools (sector=0) and 70 catholic schools (sector=1) in the sample.

Usage

hsb

Format

A data frame with 7185 rows and 11 variables:

id: school identification number
minority: ethnicity status: other, minority
female: gender status: female, male
ses: socioeconomic status based on a standardized scale constructed from measures of parental occupation, education, and income
mathach: a measure of math achievement
size: school enrollment size
catholic: school sector: public school or catholic school
pracad: proportion of students in the academic track
disclim: scale measuring disciplinary climate
himinty: proportion of minority enrollment
meanses: mean SES for each school