kids: Goals and popularity factors for school kids

In fastR: Data sets and utilities for Foundations and Applications of Statistics by R Pruim

Description

Subjects were students in grades 4-6 from three school districts in Michigan. Students were selected from urban, suburban, and rural school districts with approximately 1/3 of their sample coming from each district. Students indicated whether good grades, athletic ability, or popularity was most important to them. They also ranked four factors: grades, sports, looks, and money, in order of their importance for popularity. The questionnaire also asked for gender, grade level, and other demographic information.

Usage

data(kids)

Format

A data frame with 478 observations on the following 11 variables.

Gender

a factor with levels boy girl

Grade

grade in school

Age

student age

Race

a factor with levels Other White

Urban.Rural

a factor with levels Rural Suburban Urban

School

a factor with levels Brentwood Elementary Brentwood Middle Brown Middle Elm Main Portage Ridge Sand Westdale Middle

Goals

a factor with levels Grades Popular Sports

Grades

rank of ‘make good grades’ (1=most important for popularity; 4=least important)

Sports

rank of ‘beging good at sports’ (1=most important for popularity; 4=least important)

Looks

rank of ‘beging handsome or pretty’ (1=most important for popularity; 4=least important)

Money

rank of ‘having lots of money’ (1=most important for popularity; 4=least important)

Source

These data are available at DASL, the data and story library (http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/).

References

Chase, M. A., and Dummer, G. M. (1992), "The Role of Sports as a Social Determinant for Children," Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 63, 418-424.

Examples

data(kids)
xtabs(~Goals + Urban.Rural, kids)
chisq.test(xtabs(~Goals + Urban.Rural, kids))

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