High School and Beyond survey — hsb2 • openintro

Two hundred observations were randomly sampled from the High School and Beyond survey, a survey conducted on high school seniors by the National Center of Education Statistics.

Usage

hsb2

Format

A data frame with 200 observations and 11 variables.

id: Student ID.
gender: Student's gender, with levels female and male.
race: Student's race, with levels african american, asian, hispanic, and white.
ses: Socio economic status of student's family, with levels low, middle, and high.
schtyp: Type of school, with levels public and private.
prog: Type of program, with levels general, academic, and vocational.
read: Standardized reading score.
write: Standardized writing score.
math: Standardized math score.
science: Standardized science score.
socst: Standardized social studies score.

Source

UCLA Institute for Digital Research & Education - Statistical Consulting.

Examples


library(ggplot2)

ggplot(hsb2, aes(x = read - write, y = ses)) +
  geom_boxplot() +
  labs(
    x = "Difference between reading and writing scores",
    y = "Socio-economic status"
  )