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nzmaths

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Maths Performance Data from the PISA 2012 survey in New Zealand

Description

Data on maths performance, gender, some problem-solving variables and some school resource variables.

Usage

data("nzmaths")

Format

A data frame with 4291 observations on the following 26 variables.

SCHOOLID: School ID
CNT: Country id: a factor with levels New Zealand
STRATUM: a factor with levels NZL0101 NZL0102 NZL0202 NZL0203
OECD: Is the country in the OECD?
STIDSTD: Student ID
ST04Q01: Gender: a factor with levels Female Male
ST14Q02: Mother has university qualifications No Yes
ST18Q02: Father has university qualifications No Yes
MATHEFF: Mathematics Self-Efficacy: numeric vector
OPENPS: Mathematics Self-Efficacy: numeric vector
PV1MATH,PV2MATH,PV3MATH,PV4MATH,PV5MATH: 'Plausible values' (multiple imputations) for maths performance
W_FSTUWT: Design weight for student
SC35Q02: Proportion of maths teachers with professional development in maths in past year
PCGIRLS: Proportion of girls at the school
PROPMA5A: Proportion of maths teachers with ISCED 5A (math major)
ABGMATH: Does the school group maths students: a factor with levels No ability grouping between any classes One of these forms of ability grouping between classes for s One of these forms of ability grouping for all classes
SMRATIO: Number of students per maths teacher
W_FSCHWT: Design weight for school
condwt: Design weight for student given school

Source

A subset extracted from the PISA2012lite R package, https://github.com/pbiecek/PISA2012lite

References

OECD (2013) PISA 2012 Assessment and Analytical Framework: Mathematics, Reading, Science, Problem Solving and Financial Literacy. OECD Publishing.

Examples

data(nzmaths)

oo<-options(survey.lonely.psu="average") ## only one PSU in one of the strata

des<-svydesign(id=~SCHOOLID+STIDSTD, strata=~STRATUM, nest=TRUE,
	weights=~W_FSCHWT+condwt, data=nzmaths)

## This example works, but it takes more than five seconds to run, so it
## has been commented out
## m1<-svy2lme(PV1MATH~ (1+ ST04Q01 |SCHOOLID)+ST04Q01*(PCGIRLS+SMRATIO)+MATHEFF+OPENPS, design=des)

options(oo)

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