R Dataset / Package Ecdat / University

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the University data set which pertains to Provision of University Teaching and Research . The University data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the University data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("University"). This will load the data into a variable called University. If R says the University 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 University R data set. The size of this file is about 5,364 bytes.

Provision of University Teaching and Research

Description

a cross-section from 1988

number of observations : 62

observation : schools

country : United Kingdown

Usage

data(University)

Format

A dataframe containing :

undstudents: undergraduate students
poststudents: postgraduate students
nassets: net assets
acnumbers: academic numbers
acrelnum: academic related numbers
clernum: clerical numbers
compop: computer operators
techn: technicians
stfees: student fees
acpay: academic pay
acrelpay: academic related pay
secrpay: secretarial pay
admpay: admin pay
agresrk: aggregate research rank
furneq: furniture and equipment
landbuild: land and buildings
resgr: research grants

Source

Glass, J.C., D.G. McKillop and N. Hyndman (1995) “Efficiency in the provision of university teaching and research : an empirical analysis of UK universities”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 10(1), january–march, 61–72.

References

Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/.

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