The hsb2 dataset is taken from a national survey of high school seniors. Two hundred observation were randomly sampled from the High School and Beyond survey. Descriptive statistics and exploratory data analysis are shown below.
Here is the list of variables in the file.
obs: 200 highschool and beyond (200 cases)
vars: 12 28 Feb 2005 09:25
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variable
variable name type about the variable
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id scale student id
female nominal (0/1)
race nominal ethnicity (1=hispanic 2=asian 3=african-amer 4=white)
ses ordinal (1=low 2=middle 3=high)
schtyp nominal type of school (1=public 2=private)
prog nominal type of program (1=general 2=academic 3=vocational)
read scale standardized reading score
write scale standardized writing score
math scale standardized math score
science scale standardized science score
socst scale standardized social studies score
hon nominal honors english (0/1)
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SPSS syntax file
get file='/Users/ender2/data/spss/hsb2.sav'. frequencies variables=female race ses schtyp prog hon . crosstabs /tables=prog BY female /tables ses by female . descriptives variables=read write math science socst /statistics=mean stddev variance min max kurtosis skewness . examine variables=read write math science socst /plot=stemleaf histogram /statistics=none . examine variables=write by prog /plot=boxplot /statistics=none .
SPSS output