Description

A partially observed version of the jspmix1 dataset in package R2MLwiN. This is an educational dataset of pupils' test scores, a subset of the Junior School Project (Mortimore et al, 1988).

Usage

Format

A data frame with 4059 observations on the following 6 variables.

school

A school identifier.

id

A student ID.

fluent

Fluency in English indicator, where 0 = beginner, 1 = intermediate, 2 = fully fluent; measured in Year 1.

sex

Sex of pupil; numeric with levels 0 (boy), 1 (girl).

cons

A column of 1s. Useful to add an intercept to th eimputation model.

ravens

Test score, out of 40; measured in Year 1.

english

Pupils' English test score, out of 100; measured in Year 3.

behaviour

Pupils' behaviour score, where lowerquarter = pupil rated in bottom 25%, and upper otherwise; measured in Year 3.

Details

These fully observed verison of the data is available with package R2MLwiN.

Source

Browne, W. J. (2012) MCMC Estimation in MLwiN Version 2.26. University of Bristol: Centre for Multilevel Modelling.

Mortimore, P., Sammons, P., Stoll, L., Lewis, D., Ecob, R. (1988) School Matters. Wells: Open Books.

Rasbash, J., Charlton, C., Browne, W.J., Healy, M. and Cameron, B. (2009) MLwiN Version 2.1. Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol.