R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Caschool

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Caschool data set which pertains to The California Test Score Data Set . The Caschool data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Caschool data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Caschool"). This will load the data into a variable called Caschool. If R says the Caschool data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Ecdat") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Caschool R data set. The size of this file is about 96,984 bytes.

The California Test Score Data Set

Description

a cross-section from 1998-1999

number of observations : 420

observation : schools

country : United States

Usage

data(Caschool)

Format

A dataframe containing :

distcod: district code
county: county
district: district
grspan: grade span of district
enrltot: total enrollment
teachers: number of teachers
calwpct: percent qualifying for CalWorks
mealpct: percent qualifying for reduced-price lunch
computer: number of computers
testscr: average test score (read.scr+math.scr)/2
compstu: computer per student
expnstu: expenditure per student
str: student teacher ratio
avginc: district average income
elpct: percent of English learners
readscr: average reading score
mathscr: average math score

Source

California Department of Education http://www.cde.ca.gov.

References

Stock, James H. and Mark W. Watson (2003) Introduction to Econometrics, Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers, chapter 4–7.

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