ccr81 {npsf}

Program Follow Through at Primary Schools

Description

The data set is from an US federally sponsored program for providing remedial assistance to disadvantaged primary school students. The data comprises 70 school sites.

Usage

data( ccr81 )

Format

This data frame contains the following variables (columns):

nu

School Site Number

y1

Total Reading Score

y2

Total Math Score

y3

Total Coopersmith Score

x1

Education Level of Mother

x2

Occupation Index

x3

Parental Visit Index

x4

Counseling Index

x5

Number of Teachers

Details

The data were originally used to evaluate the efficiency of public programs and their management.

Source

A. Charnes, W. W. Cooper and E. Rhodes (1981), Evaluating Program and Managerial Efficiency: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis to Program Follow Through, Management Science, 27, 668–697.

References

Charnes, A., W. W. Cooper, and E. Rhodes. 1981. Evaluating Program and Managerial Efficiency: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis to Program Follow Through. Management Science 27: 668–697