On this Picostat.com 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. 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.

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.