Taiwanese students answer a multiple response question
This data is a subset from a survey of 49609 first-year college students in Taiwan collected in the year 2003 about their preferences for college study.
data(students.tw)
A data frame with 49609 observations on the following 12 response
variables.
For binary variables, a "1" means yes,
and "0" means no.
See below for exact wording (translated from the original Chinese).
IDa numeric vector, a unique identification number for each student in the survey.
readRead Chinese and foreign classics.
t.travelTravel around Taiwan.
conferencePresent academic papers in conferences.
act.leaderLead large-scale activities.
teamBe on a school team.
stu.leaderBe a student association leader.
internParticipate internship programs.
loveFall in love.
sexHave sexual experience.
o.travelTravel around the world.
friendsMake many friends.
otherOther experience which is not included in the survey.
This data frame is a subset of a larger data set where any student with any missing value was deleted. The remaining data set contains of 32792 students. Unfortunately, other variables such as age and sex were not made available.
Each student was asked the following multiple response question.
Question : What kind of experience do you expect to receive during the period of college study? (Select at least one response)
1. Read Chinese and foreign classics
2. Travel around Taiwan
3. Present academic papers in conferences
4. Lead large-scale activities
5. Be on a school team
6. Be a student association leader
7. Participate internship programs
8. Fall in love
9. Have sexual experience
10. Travel around the world
11. Make many friends
12. Other
Originally, the data set for was downloaded from a survey center
of Academia Sinica https://srda.sinica.edu.tw/news.
It now seems unavailable.
Wang, H. and Huang, W. H. (2013) Bayesian Ranking Responses in Multiple Response Questions. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, (to appear).
Help from Viet Hoang Quoc is gratefully acknowledged.
data(students.tw)
summary(students.tw)
with(students.tw, table(love, sex))
## Not run:
plot(jitter(sex) ~ jitter(love), data = students.tw, col = "blue",
main = "Taiwanese students")
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