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kids: Goals and popularity factors for school kids

Description

Subjects were students in grades 4-6 from three school districts in Michigan. Students were selected from urban, suburban, and rural school districts with approximately 1/3 of their sample coming from each district. Students indicated whether good grades, athletic ability, or popularity was most important to them. They also ranked four factors: grades, sports, looks, and money, in order of their importance for popularity. The questionnaire also asked for gender, grade level, and other demographic information.

Format

A data frame with 478 observations on the following 11 variables.

• Gender a factor with levels boy girl

• Grade grade in school

• Age student age

• Race a factor with levels Other White

• Urban.Rural a factor with levels Rural Suburban Urban

• School a factor with levels Brentwood Elementary Brentwood Middle Brown Middle Elm Main Portage Ridge Sand Westdale Middle

• Goals a factor with levels Grades Popular Sports

• Grades rank of `make good grades' (1=most important for popularity; 4=least important)

• Sports rank of `beging good at sports' (1=most important for popularity; 4=least important)

• Looks rank of `beging handsome or pretty' (1=most important for popularity; 4=least important)

• Money rank of `having lots of money' (1=most important for popularity; 4=least important)

References

Chase, M. A., and Dummer, G. M. (1992), "The Role of Sports as a Social Determinant for Children," Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 63, 418-424.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(kids)
xtabs(~Goals + Urban.Rural, data=kids)
chisq.test(xtabs(~Goals + Urban.Rural, data=kids))

# }