R Dataset / Package Ecdat / MCAS

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the MCAS data set which pertains to The Massachusetts Test Score Data Set . The MCAS data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the MCAS data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("MCAS"). This will load the data into a variable called MCAS. If R says the MCAS 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 MCAS R data set. The size of this file is about 33,641 bytes.

The Massachusetts Test Score Data Set

Description

a cross-section from 1997-1998

number of observations : 220

observation : schools

country : United States

Usage

data(MCAS)

Format

A dataframe containing :

code: district code (numerical)
municipa: municipality (name)
district: district name
regday: spending per pupil, regular
specneed: spending per pupil, special needs
bilingua: spending per pupil, bilingual
occupday: spending per pupil, occupational
totday: spending per pupil, total
spc: students per computer
speced: special education students
lnchpct: eligible for free or reduced price lunch
tchratio: students per teacher
percap: per capita income
totsc4: 4th grade score (math+english+science)
totsc8: 8th grade score (math+english+science)
avgsalary: average teacher salary
pctel: percent english learnersh

Source

Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), Massachusetts Department of Education, 1990 U.S. Census.

References

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

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