Absenteeism from School in Rural New South Wales

Arguments

Eth Ethnic background: Aboriginal or Not, ("A" or "N").
Sex Sex factor: ("F" or "M").
Age Age group: Primary ("F0"), or forms "F1," "F2" or "F3".
Lrn Learner status factor: Average or Slow learner, ("AL" or "SL").
Days Days absent from school in the year.

SUMMARY

The quine data frame has 146 rows and 5 columns. Children from Walgett, New South Wales, Australia, were classified by Culture, Age, Sex and Learner status and the number of days absent from school in a particular school year was recorded.

DATA DESCRIPTION

This data frame contains the following columns:

SOURCE

S. Quine, quoted in Aitkin, M. (1978) The analysis of unbalanced cross classifications (with discussion). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society series A 141 195-223.


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