Vocabulary and Education

Description

The Vocab data frame has 21,638 rows and 5 columns. The observations are respondents to U.S. General Social Surveys, 1972-2004.

Usage

Vocab

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

year

Year of the survey.

sex

Sex of the respondent, Female or Male.

education

Education, in years.

vocabulary

Vocabulary test score: number correct on a 10-word test.

Source

National Opinion Research Center General Social Survey. GSS Cumulative Datafile 1972-2004, downloaded from http://sda.berkeley.edu/archive.htm.

References

Fox, J. (2008) Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models, Second Edition. Sage.

Fox, J. and Weisberg, S. (2011) An R Companion to Applied Regression, Second Edition, Sage.