Data was collected as a subset of the "High School and Beyond" study conducted by the National Education Longitudinal Studies (NELS) program of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
data(hsb)A data frame with 200 observations on the following 11 variables.
idID of student
gendera factor with levels female male
racea factor with levels african-amer asian hispanic white
sessocioeconomic class - a factor with levels high low middle
schtypschool type - a factor with levels private public
progchoice of high school program - a factor with levels academic general vocation
readreading score
writewriting score
mathmath score
sciencescience score
socstsocial science score
One purpose of the study was to determine which factors are related to the choice of the type of program, academic, vocational or general, that the students pursue in high school.