Description

This data set illustrates analyis of a multifactor observational study, with response given by subject's score on a vocabulary test, and factors for age group, education level, natality status, gender and year of the survey.

Usage

Format

A data frame with 28867 observations on the following 8 variables.

year

a factor with levels 1978 1982 1984 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1993 1994 1996 1998 2000 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016. Data are included from the GSS for each of these years.

gender

a factor with levels female male

nativeBorn

Was the respondent born in the US? A factor with levels no and yes.

ageGroup

a factor with levels 18-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60+, grouped age of the respondent.

educGroup

a factor with levels <12 yrs 12 yrs 13-15 yrs 16 yrs >16 yrs, grouped education level of the respondent. 12 years corresponds to high school graduate, 16 years to college graduate.

vocab

Number of words out of 10 correct on a vocabulary test

age

age of the respondent in years

educ

years of education of the respondent

Details

This file includes the years of the GSS for which the vocab and nativeBorn items were included.

Source

These data were collected from the GSS data explorer https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org, using the data fields year, id_, age, educ, sex, born and wordsum. The GSS began in 1972, and has included several thousand data items, some regularly and some only once, on topics of interest to social scientists. Data have been slightly edited to change entires like No answer and Not applicable to missing value codes.

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