Hypothetical (Fake) Data on Academic Performance

This is a hypothetical universe of schools in a given territorial unit, patterned off the apipop data available in the survey package.

Usage

fakeAPI

A data frame with 10000 observations on the following 8 variables.

uid: a numeric vector as a unique identifier for schools
schooltype: a character vector for school type. E = elementary school. M = middle school. H = high school
county: a character vector for the county, named after an Ohio State All-American. “County” incidence is weighted by how many All-American honors the Ohio State player had. It's my fake data. You make your own if you have a problem with it.
community: a character vector for the school's community, either rural, suburban, or urban.
api: a numeric vector vector an academic performance index for the school
meals: a numeric vector for the percentage of school students eligible for subsidized meals
colgrad: a numeric vector for the percentage of school parents with college degrees
fullqual: a numeric vector for the percentage of the school with teachers that are fully qualified
sbase: a numeric vector for some base differences between schools, patterned off the school type means for api00 in the apipop data.
cbase: a numeric vector for some base differences between counties, randomly drawn from a uniform distribution
e: a numeric vector for random errors

These data were generated for a blog post on my website.