States {sur}

Educational Measures of the 50 States and Washington, D.C.

Description

This dataset includes different educational measures of the 50 states and Washington, D.C. These data are from The 2014 World Almanac and Book of Facts.

Usage

States

Format

A data frame with 51 rows and 10 variables:

state

name of state

region

region of the country in which the state is located

enrollmt

total public school enrollment 2011 - 2012

stuteach

average number of pupils per teacher 2011 - 2012

teachpay

average annual salary for public school teachers 2011 - 2012

educexpe

average expenditure per pupil 2011 - 2012

satcr

average SAT Critical Reading score 2013

satm

average SAT Math score 2013

satw

average SAT Writing score 2013

pertak

percentage of eligible students taking the SAT 2012