nzmaths {svylme} | R Documentation |
Maths Performance Data from the PISA 2012 survey in New Zealand
Description
Data on maths performance, gender, some problem-solving variables and some school resource variables.
Usage
data("nzmaths")
Format
A data frame with 4291 observations on the following 26 variables.
SCHOOLID
School ID
CNT
Country id: a factor with levels
New Zealand
STRATUM
a factor with levels
NZL0101
NZL0102
NZL0202
NZL0203
OECD
Is the country in the OECD?
STIDSTD
Student ID
ST04Q01
Gender: a factor with levels
Female
Male
ST14Q02
Mother has university qualifications
No
Yes
ST18Q02
Father has university qualifications
No
Yes
MATHEFF
Mathematics Self-Efficacy: numeric vector
OPENPS
Mathematics Self-Efficacy: numeric vector
PV1MATH
,PV2MATH
,PV3MATH
,PV4MATH
,PV5MATH
'Plausible values' (multiple imputations) for maths performance
W_FSTUWT
Design weight for student
SC35Q02
Proportion of maths teachers with professional development in maths in past year
PCGIRLS
Proportion of girls at the school
PROPMA5A
Proportion of maths teachers with ISCED 5A (math major)
ABGMATH
Does the school group maths students: a factor with levels
No ability grouping between any classes
One of these forms of ability grouping between classes for s
One of these forms of ability grouping for all classes
SMRATIO
Number of students per maths teacher
W_FSCHWT
Design weight for school
condwt
Design weight for student given school
Source
A subset extracted from the PISA2012lite
R package, https://github.com/pbiecek/PISA2012lite
References
OECD (2013) PISA 2012 Assessment and Analytical Framework: Mathematics, Reading, Science, Problem Solving and Financial Literacy. OECD Publishing.
Examples
data(nzmaths)
oo<-options(survey.lonely.psu="average") ## only one PSU in one of the strata
des<-svydesign(id=~SCHOOLID+STIDSTD, strata=~STRATUM, nest=TRUE,
weights=~W_FSCHWT+condwt, data=nzmaths)
## This example works, but it takes more than five seconds to run, so it
## has been commented out
## m1<-svy2lme(PV1MATH~ (1+ ST04Q01 |SCHOOLID)+ST04Q01*(PCGIRLS+SMRATIO)+MATHEFF+OPENPS, design=des)
options(oo)