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Practice Data Files

The following comma separated value files are located in the program subdirectory. The city manager and AFQT data sets are random subsets of larger files that were used in published research.
 

File Name:  "citymgr.csv"

City Manager Survey 1997 (n=324)
Based on a random survey of city managers in cities 100k or less in size.

 
VARIABLE NAME DEFINITION
ID case identification number
YRSWORK years in public service
YRSMGR years as a manager
EDUC years of formal education
SEX 0=male, 1=female
AGE age in years
POPK city population in 1000s
NEGOT negotiation skills (greater # = greater skill)
ANALYT analytical skills (greater # = greater skill)
PREFER skill preference (NEGOT-ANALYT)
File Name: "grades.csv"

Student grades in a typical statistics course  (n=23)
Exam scores and course grade are reported as a percentage of the total points possible.
 

VARIABLE NAME DEFINITION
ID case identification number
EXAM1 score in first exam
EXAM2 score in second exam
EXAM3 score in third (final) exam
GRADE overall course grade (includes a paper and assignments)

File Name: "afqt.csv"

National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (n=1000)
A cohort of young American youth initially surveyed in 1979.
 

VARIABLE NAME  DEFINITION
CASEID case identification number
AFQT Armed Forces Qualification Test (correlates with IQ)
AGE age when given AFQT
PARINC parents' income (economic status)

File Name: "income&sex.csv"

Ficticious Data (n=30)
 

VARIABLE NAME  DEFINITION
RECORD Record number
INCOME Annual income in US$
EDUC Years of education
SEX Sex of respondent (0=Male, 1=Female)
EduFmt Education formatted into four categories (1=HS, 2=13-15, 3=16, 4=>16)

Note:  If you wish to see what a comma delimited text file looks like, open one of the csv data files in the output viewer.