irished: The Raftery and Hout Irish education data

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Description

irished data contains Data on educational transitions for a sample of 500 Irish schoolchildren aged 11 in 1967.

Usage

data(irished)

Format

irished is a tbl data frame with 500 observations on 6 variables.

Details

The 6 variables of the irished tbl data frame are the following ones:

• Sex Factor with levels 1 = male; 2 = female

• DVRT Drumcondra Verbal Reasoning Test Score (numeric)

• edlevel Educational level attained:

  1. Primary terminal leaver

  2. Junior cycle incomplete: vocational school

  3. Junior cycle incomplete: secondary school

  4. Junior cycle terminal leaver: vocational school

  5. Junior cycle terminal leaver: secondary school

  6. Senior cycle incomplete: vocational school

  7. Senior cycle incomplete: secondary school

  8. Senior cycle terminal leaver: vocational school

  9. Senior cycle terminal leaver: secondary school

  10. 3rd level incomplete

  11. 3rd level complete

• lvcert Leaving Certificate. Factor with 2 levels: 1 if Leaving Certificate not taken; 2 if taken.

• fathocc Prestige score for father's occupation (calculated by Raftery and Hout, 1985) (numeric)

• schltype Type of school. Factor of 3 levels: 1 = secondary; 2 = vocational; 9 = primary terminal leaver.

Source

Data collected by Greaney and Kelleghan (1984), and reanalyzed by Raftery and Hout (1985, 1993)

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