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Irish Educational Transitions Data

Below are shown 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).

The data were also used, in a simplified form, as an example to illustrate Bayesian model selection methods by Raftery (1988) and Kass and Raftery (1993). In that simplified form, primary terminal leavers and cases with any missing data were removed, leaving 441 cases. The Leaving Certificate variable was used as the dependent variable in a logistic regression analysis.

The variables shown are as follows:

1. Sex: 1=male; 2=female.

2. DVRT (Drumcondra Verbal Reasoning Test Score).

3. Educational level attained: 1 Primary terminal leaver 2 Junior cycle incomplete: vocational school 3 Junior cycle incomplete: secondary school 4 Junior cycle terminal leaver: vocational school 5 Junior cycle terminal leaver: secondary school 6 Senior cycle incomplete: vocational school 7 Senior cycle incomplete: secondary school 8 Senior cycle terminal leaver: vocational school 9 Senior cycle terminal leaver: secondary school 10 3rd level incomplete 11 3rd level complete

4. Leaving Certificate. 1 if Leaving Certificate not taken; 2 if taken.

5. Prestige score for father's occupation (calculated by Raftery and Hout, 1985). 0 if missing.

6. Type of school: 1=secondary; 2=vocational; 9=primary terminal leaver.

   REFERENCES

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. Subject to this statement, permission is hereby given to StatLib to distribute this data freely.

Submitted by Adrian Raftery (raftery@stat.washington.edu).

Copyright 1984 Vincent Greaney and Thomas Kelleghan.

Information about the dataset CLASSTYPE: nominal CLASSINDEX: 4

Names

Sex,DVRT,Educational_level,Leaving_Certificate,Prestige_score,Type_school,

Types

1. nominal:female,male
2. numeric
3. nominal:3rd_level_complete,3rd_level_incomplete,Junior_cycle_incomplete-secondary_school,Junior_cycle_incomplete-vocational_school,Junior_cycle_terminal_leaver-secondary_school,Junior_cycle_terminal_leaver-vocational_school,Primary_terminal_leaver,Senior_cycle_incomplete-secondary_school,Senior_cycle_incomplete-vocational_school,Senior_cycle_terminal_leaver-secondary_school
4. nominal:not_taken,taken
5. numeric
6. nominal:primary_terminal_leaver,secondary,vocational

Data (first 10 data points)

Sex	DVRT	Educ...	Leav...	Pres...	Type...
male	113	Juni...	not_...	28.0	seco...
male	101	Prim...	not_...	28.0	prim...
male	110	Seni...	taken	69.0	seco...
male	121	Juni...	not_...	57.0	seco...
male	82	Juni...	not_...	18.0	voca...
male	85	Juni...	not_...	28.0	voca...
male	84	Prim...	not_...	nan	prim...
male	98	Juni...	not_...	43.0	voca...
male	92	Juni...	not_...	33.0	voca...
male	90	Prim...	not_...	18.0	prim...
...	...	...	...	...	...

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