These data are a subset of the data used in Raudenbush and Bryk (1999) for multilevel modeling.
A data.frame with 1595 observations on the following
variables.
school: unique school level identifier
ses: student level socio-economic status scale ranges from approx. -3.578 to 2.692
mathach: senior year mathematics test score, outcome measure
female: student level indicator for sex
minority: student level indicator for minority
minority_mean: school level measure of percentage of student body that is minority
female_mean: school level measure of percentage of student body that is female
ses_mean: school level measure of average level of student socio-economic status
sector: treatment indicator 1 if catholic 0 if public
size: school level measure of total number of enrolled students
acad: school level measure of the percentage of students on the academic track
discrm: school level measure of disciplinary climate ranges from approx. -2.4 to 2.7
size_large: school level indicator for schools with more than 1000 students
minority_mean_large: school level indicator for schools with more than ten percent minority
United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics. High School and Beyond, 1980: Sophomore and Senior Cohort First Follow-Up (1982).