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).
A data frame with 200 observations on the following 11 variables.
ID of student
a factor
with levels female
male
a factor with
levels african-amer
asian
hispanic
white
socioeconomic class - a factor with levels high
low
middle
school type - a factor with
levels private
public
choice of high
school program - a factor with levels academic
general
vocation
reading score
writing score
math score
science score
social 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.