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OpenML451MaRDI QIDQ6033192

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Full work available at URL: https://api.openml.org/data/v1/download/52563/irish.arff

Upload date: 28 September 2014


Dataset Characteristics

Number of classes: 2
Number of features: 6 (numeric: 2, symbolic: 4 and in total binary: 2 )
Number of instances: 500
Number of instances with missing values: 32
Number of missing values: 32

Author: Vincent Greaney, Thomas Kelleghan (St. Patrick's College, Dublin) Source: StatLib - 1984 Please cite: StatLib

Irish Educational Transitions Data Data on educational transitions for a sample of 500 Irish schoolchildren aged 11 in 1967. The data were collected by Greaney and Kelleghan (1984), and reanalyzed by Raftery and Hout (1985, 1993).

Attribute information

  • Sex: 1=male; 2=female.
  • DVRT (Drumcondra Verbal Reasoning Test Score).
  • Educational level attained
  • Leaving Certificate. 1 if Leaving Certificate not taken; 2 if taken.
  • Prestige score for father's occupation (calculated by Raftery and Hout, 1985).
  • Type of school: 1=secondary; 2=vocational; 9=primary terminal leaver.

Relevant papers

Greaney, V. and Kelleghan, T. (1984). Equality of Opportunity in Irish Schools. Dublin: Educational Company.

Kass, R.E. and Raftery, A.E. (1993). Bayes factors and model uncertainty. Technical Report no. 254, Department of Statistics, University of Washington. Revised version to appear in Journal of the American Statistical Association.

Raftery, A.E. (1988). Approximate Bayes factors for generalized linear models. Technical Report no. 121, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.

Raftery, A.E. and Hout, M. (1985). Does Irish education approach the meritocratic ideal? A logistic analysis. Economic and Social Review, 16, 115-140.

Raftery, A.E. and Hout, M. (1993). Maximally maintained inequality: Expansion, reform and opportunity in Irish schools. Sociology of Education, 66, 41-62.


Ownership Statement

This data belongs to Vincent Greaney and Thomas Kelleghan, Educational Research Centre, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, Ireland, who retain the copyright.

In the form given here, it may be used solely as an example for research on the development of statistical methods. For any other use of the data, permission must be obtained from the owners.